Publication: Mail and Guardian Issued: Date: 2007-03-08 Reporter: Sapa

Provincial Minister Looks In on Yengeni

 

Publication 

Mail and Guardian
Date

2007-03-08

Reporter

Sapa

Web Link

www.mg.co.za

 

Western Cape provincial minister of education Cameron Dugmore was discussing projects when he visited the school where former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni is doing his community service, his office said on Thursday.

Yengeni is working at the Siyazama school for mentally challenged children in Guguletu.

Dugmore's spokesperson, Gert Witbooi, said Yengeni had wanted to discuss "certain projects" that he wants to implement at the school and had invited Dugmore to the school for that purpose.

Department of Correctional Services spokesperson Luphumzo Kebeni said Yengeni started duties at the school soon after his release from prison in January.

He was performing general administrative duties, including filing, and also acting as a driver, Kebeni said.

He rejected a suggestion by the Democratic Alliance that Yengeni might not be abiding by the terms of his correctional supervision.

"He has been performing community service, and the hours he's doing are within the conditions stipulated. He's not been bunking," Kebeni said.

Yengeni was released from Malmesbury prison after having served just five months of a four-year jail term for defrauding Parliament.

The DA has challenged the Department of Correctional Services to reveal Yengeni's parole conditions.

The party has flied a formal request under the Promotion of Access to Information Act.

"We have reason to believe that Mr Yengeni has not complied with his parole/correctional supervision conditions," the party's prisons spokesperson, James Selfe, said this week.

With acknowledgement to Sapa and Mail & Guardian.