Sex pest Mashabane quits Limpopo post
Sex pest Norman Mashabane has resigned with immediate effect from his post as political adviser to Limpopo premier Sello Moloto.
This followed a Pretoria High Court judgment last week which reinstated a guilty verdict on several sexual harassment charges against Mashabane.
The court’s decision also turned the spotlight on Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who overturned a disciplinary court decision implicating Mashabane in sexual harassment of embassy staff.
Moloto made the announcement yesterday, saying Mashabane had asked to be relieved of his duties. “He has asked to be relieved of his duties to focus on the problems he is currently experiencing,” said the premier’s spokesman, Mogale Nchabeleng.
The sexual harassment incidents took place when he was SA’s ambassador to Indonesia. Mashabane was found guilty by a disciplinary committee in 2001 of 22 counts of sexual harassment that included stroking the buttocks of an employee, molesting a staff member in a lift and making suggestive motions with his tongue to another.
The panel recommended he be fired, but he appealed against the judgment and was allowed to continue in his post pending the outcome.
However, Dlamini-Zuma, acting as the appeal authority, reversed the findings, suggesting that Mashabane’s name was being dragged through the mud for exposing motor vehicle fraud at the embassy.
The Public Servants Association welcomed the high court decision, saying it cleared the name of member Lara Swart, one of those who laid a complaint of sexual harassment against Mashabane.
Mashabane started working as the premier’s political adviser in November. Opposition parties and unions have called on Dlamini-Zuma to apologise to the victims and women who might have been dissuaded from pursuing a claim of harassment for fear of being accused of inventing the incident.
This followed a Pretoria High Court judgment last week which reinstated a guilty verdict on several sexual harassment charges against Mashabane.
The court’s decision also turned the spotlight on Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who overturned a disciplinary court decision implicating Mashabane in sexual harassment of embassy staff.
Moloto made the announcement yesterday, saying Mashabane had asked to be relieved of his duties. “He has asked to be relieved of his duties to focus on the problems he is currently experiencing,” said the premier’s spokesman, Mogale Nchabeleng.
The sexual harassment incidents took place when he was SA’s ambassador to Indonesia. Mashabane was found guilty by a disciplinary committee in 2001 of 22 counts of sexual harassment that included stroking the buttocks of an employee, molesting a staff member in a lift and making suggestive motions with his tongue to another.
The panel recommended he be fired, but he appealed against the judgment and was allowed to continue in his post pending the outcome.
However, Dlamini-Zuma, acting as the appeal authority, reversed the findings, suggesting that Mashabane’s name was being dragged through the mud for exposing motor vehicle fraud at the embassy.
The Public Servants Association welcomed the high court decision, saying it cleared the name of member Lara Swart, one of those who laid a complaint of sexual harassment against Mashabane.
Mashabane started working as the premier’s political adviser in November. Opposition parties and unions have called on Dlamini-Zuma to apologise to the victims and women who might have been dissuaded from pursuing a claim of harassment for fear of being accused of inventing the incident.
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