The Universal Service and Access Agency of SA (USAASA) will only have a new board by the end of this month.
Communications minister Dina Pule said at the beginning of the year that the new board would be in place this month. However, this morning, she said the new board would only be in place at the end of the month.
Pule was speaking at a breakfast meeting attended by top-level public and private sector ICT executives. She said the department had filled vacant boards at all its state-owned entities, with the exception of the agency.
USAASA has been plagued by financial maladministration, which resulted in previous minister Roy Padayachie instituting a forensic investigation last October. Five senior managers, including CEO Phineas Moleele and CFO Andrew Hlubi, were suspended pending the finalisation of the investigation.
The investigation probed financial mismanagement worth millions of rands, after an internal audit report recommended further investigation into the agency's project management office.
Last month, the agency also suspended its senior ICT manager, Thato Matsepe, pending the conclusion of an internal investigation.
Pule says the investigation has been finalised and the department is implementing recommendations from its outcomes.
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