{"id":14022,"date":"2010-07-26T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-26T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:45:00","slug":"nyanda-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/14022-nyanda-guilty.html","title":{"rendered":"Nyanda guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/article569178.ece\/Nyanda-found-guilty\">Timeslive yesterday reported<\/a> that Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda has been found guilty by the Public Protector of &#8220;improperly&#8221; using his position as minister to defend former Transnet Freight Rail CEO Siyabonga Gama.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Times it &ldquo;has established that Public Protector Thulisile Madonsela sent Nyanda a two-page letter last week in which she told him that he had breached the executive ethics code when he publicly defended Gama after his suspension from Transnet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nyanda however gets off scot free as the Public Protector Thulisile Madonsela said that &ldquo;no punitive action would be taken against Nyanda because the findings were not based on &lsquo;legal opinion but on the investigation carried out by my office&rsquo;.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/253012-Nyanda-found-guilty\">Nyanda guilty<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda found guilty by the Public Protector of improperly using his cabinet position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}