JOHANNESBURG - Mohlala-Mulaudzi’s contract ends next month.

Yesterday, trade and industry spokesman Sidwell Medupe said: “Minister Davies’ decision was dispatched to Mohlala-Mulaudzi and her lawyers on Friday, 17 August.

“The Minister reiterated his preference for an open competitive process, and declined to accede to Mohlala-Mulaudzi’s request for an automatic renewal of her contract.”

Mohlala-Mulaudzi and Davies have been involved in a labour dispute, with the commissioner losing a labour court application for her contract to be extended beyond September.

Mohlala-Mulaudzi joined the department’s consumer commission in 2010 as part of a settlement brokered by the department of public service and administration.

The deal followed a fallout in the relationship between Mohlala-Mulaudzi and former communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda.

Mohlala-Mulaudzi was fired from her position as director-general in Nyanda’s department.
– ngwakom@citizen.co.za