{"id":12084,"date":"2021-06-13T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2021-06-13T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T15:45:21","slug":"officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","title":{"rendered":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 million spent on blankets in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu said out of the 12 officials who were implicated, disciplinary action had been taken against nine and they were on suspension.<\/p>\n

She said one official resigned and another had died.<\/p>\n

There was an uproar when allegations emerged last year that millions were used to procure the blankets for the department.<\/p>\n

Zulu says matter is yet to be finalised.<\/p>\n

IFP MP Liezl van der Merwe had asked Zulu in Parliament about action taken against those who were implicated in the blanket procurement saga.<\/p>\n

This was after the Department of Social Development had conducted a forensic investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n

Zulu said they would not tolerate corruption against any official in the department. She said action has been taken against officials who were implicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reports recommended disciplinary action against all implicated Officials. Out of 12 implicated officials, nine are on suspension with pay. One Official resigned, one passed on.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of nine implicated officials, one official could not be charged due to lack of evidence. Eight implicated officials were served with charges and appeared before the Presiding Officer. One case has been finalised, seven cases are under sub judice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 million spent on blankets in KwaZulu-Natal. Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu said out of the 12 officials who were implicated, disciplinary action had been taken against nine and they were on suspension. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"\nOfficials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\",\"name\":\"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405,\"caption\":\"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu - South Africa","description":"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu","og_description":"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":405,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu","datePublished":"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu"},"wordCount":232,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Africa","South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu","name":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-13T17:07:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Department of Social Development has taken action against some of the officials who were implicated in the R22 milli ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/06\/img-60c627f4d5ead.jpg","width":720,"height":405,"caption":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/officials-implicated-in-r22-million-blanket-saga-charged-minister-zulu#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Officials implicated in R22 million blanket saga charged: Minister Zulu"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}