ICT MINISTER WANTS JOB BACK AS LECTURER

MBABANE – After living a luxurious life of being chauffeured in a classy BMW X5 for five years, Minister of ICT Dumisani Ndlangamandla is prepared to go back and stand in front of students.

ICT is an acronym for Information, Communication and Technology.
The outgoing minister, who also happens to be a Member of Parliament for Ngudzeni Constituency, has made it known that he had something to fall back on as the term of the 10th Parliament officially comes to an end on June  30, 2018.

Communicated

It has been gathered that the minister has already communicated, allegedly through writing, to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), that he was interested in going back to teaching when his term of office ends.
Unlike MPs, Cabinet ministers are expected to remain in office to look after government affairs until such time that they would hand over everything to principal secretaries.

As has been the norm in previous elections, the ministers would remain in office at the pleasure of His Majesty King Mswati III and are expected to go home immediately after the primary elections, just before the campaigning process begins.
The practice of relieving Cabinet just before the campaigning process began, was done to avoid a situation where the individuals would campaign at an advantage over the other candidates.

Before Ndlangamandla was elected in 2013, he was a lecturer at the Ngwane Teachers Training College, which is situated in the Shiselweni Region, about 3km south of Nhlangano town.
In the past few years, most Cabinet ministers would venture into different businesses after their term of office came to an end, and not many of them went back to their previous professions.

One of them is former Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ntuthuko Dlamini, who has become a reputable businessman in his community after opening various shops.
Even though he did not confirm nor deny that he had already communicated his interest to the TSC, Ndlangamandla confirmed his interest in his old job.

“It is true that I am interested in going back to my old job. I was a lecturer at Ngwane College and I would have no problem going back there,” he said yesterday.
He highlighted that there was no need for him to reapply to the TSC as he was on an official unpaid leave for the five years of his term in Parliament. He said a person like him only needed to resume his old duties after his time was up in Cabinet or Parliament.

“I was in Parliament, so it is possible that they might not nominate me. Or maybe they might nominate me and I will not make it so I will just go back to my old job. I do not think that there will be anything sinister about me going back to teaching,” he said.

TSC Chairman, Simanga Mamba said he had not yet been made aware of the minister’s intention of going back to teaching but said that the commission’s hands were open for such people.

“When you participate in the elections, you apply for leave of absence for five years. So when that leave of absence ends, automatically you resume your old duties. It is only those who want to go for another term who have to resign because the leave can only be five years,” Mamba said.

Professions

He explained that any of the outgoing legislators who had an interest of going back to their teaching professions, were welcome to return and resume their duties.

“The leave of absence for the legislators ends in October, so we are expecting them to notify us. We are expecting that they will come to us unless otherwise, where they would state that they were resigning. Their spaces are open,” he said.

As a minister, Ndlangamandla was earning a basic salary of 61 000 and was entitled to other benefits and the amount that he would receive in his old job would be less.

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