'Sexual harassment!' But Jiyane's accuser is a serial 'victim'
PRETORIA'S Freedom Park CEO Fana Jiyane's underling Peggy Dube has accused him of sexual harassment.
But Jiyane has labelled Dube, who works as a fundraiser in the organisation, of being a liar and a known serial sexual harassment accuser.
Jiyane also says the accusations came after the Park launched an investigation into Dube "relating to irregularities in her fund raising activities".
It is alleged that Dube reported the matter to Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile, who is said to be Jiyane's friend.
But Mashatile tells Sunday World that the matter is yet to be reported to him.
"It's not true that I turned a blind eye to it," Mashatile says.
He also denies being the CEO's pal and Jiyane has flatly denied being friends with the minister.
The Park boss says Dube wrote a letter of complaint to the human resources department but failed to follow the organisation's grievance procedures.
"She hasn't been at work since she submitted her letter on August 14 so that HR could follow up on her letter in terms of the grievance procedure," says Jiyane.
Sunday World couldn't independently establish what Jiyane allegedly did that constituted sexual harassment.
Jiyane says: "In her letter of complaint, a copy of which was made available to me, Ms Dube did not state the nature, date, time and place of the alleged harassment.
"I have never fondled her and will never do it to any staff member. Incidentally, this allegation is not contained in her letter of complaint and is raised through the media."
Asked why he has not been suspended while the matter is being investigated, Jiyane says "it was only allegations, without details, and no grounds for suspension existed".
He further states: "It was also taken into account that she has exhibited a pattern of sexual harassment allegations whenever a case of misconduct or under performance is being investigated against her.
"This has included previous allegations against a council member, a former CEO, a former immediate supervisor and, more recently, a fellow union executive member, whom she blames for her recent suspension from the union.
"Under the circumstances, management felt it would be unwarranted to suspend an employee based on a mere rumour and that the matter needs to be fully investigated."
Dube declines to discuss the matter in detail.
"It is an internal matter and it must remain as such," Dube says.
Freedom Park secretary and legal adviser Deon van Rensburg confirms that a female employee has filed a sexual harassment case against Jiyane.
"The matter only came to our attention on Monday and will be internally investigated," he says.
Asked why Jiyane was not suspended Van Rensburg says: "We can't suspend him based on one employee's allegations, which do not coincide with Jiyane's reputation."
malatjin@sundayworld.co.za
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Takutine
Who said one cannot be harassed by different people? Jiyane knew she had accused other pple b4 so he did it too hoping that she wud not report for the fear of being labelled "serial accuser" and that he wud use the 'serial accuser defence"veryslowmotion
Seriously SW?? This woman may well be a victim and you are victimising her again! Sexual harrasment is not a simple matter and only the two people will know the truth. Your headline is insensitive and you should have applied a bit of thoughtfulness before putting it out. This is why women continue to suffer in silence and dont report sexual harrasment. And we wonder why rape and other forms of harrasment dont stop!! You are part of the problem!!Tictac
This guy who claims to be a victim is a pathetic liar he is actually a pervert, I know him very well he used to work for Gauteng Provincial Government and by the time he left he had a string of sexual harassment grievances lingering over his head- he always gets away with murder because his got the support from the politicians who cover up for him, he has than that so many times and no one wanted to believe the victims because he comes across as a very humble and polite person but behind the mask lies a wolf. This man is a danger to society and needs to be removed and send to jail and rot in there! I think he is a psycho because he has characteristics of a psychopath, like shallow emotional response, highly intelligent, blaming others for their actions, manipulative, anti social and often charming.Tictac
This guy who claims to be a victim is a pathetic liar he is actually the perpertrator, I know him very well he used to work for Gauteng Provincial Government and by the time he left he had a string of sexual harassment grievances lingering over his head- he always gets away with murder because his got the support from the politicians who cover up for him, he has than that so many times and no one wanted to believe the victims because he comes across as a very humble and polite person but behind the mask lies a wolf. This man is a danger to society and needs to be removed and send to jail and rot in there! I think he is a psycho because he has characteristics of a psychopath, like shallow emotional response, highly intelligent, blaming others for their actions, manipulative, anti social and often charming.ngongo
From http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-241630460.htmlANGELIQUE SERRAO
MAROPENG is being so badly mismanaged by its CEO that projects are failing and the reputation of the world heritage site is at risk.
This is a claim made by some staff at the centre, whose entire management team wrote to the CEO, Fana Jiyane, to raise their concerns about him. The letter was sent in June, before the World Cup started, and was also sent to Khulu Radebe, head of department at the Department of Economic Development.
The letter was signed by six members of the management team at Maropeng.
Since then, staff have said relationships between the CEO and management had broken down to such an extent that "ugly e-mails went around attacking people", and "things have become personal".
The Department of Economic Development denied …
scrapprat
you are used to you powers to sleep with our women & later accuse them of being serial accusersOmo khoma- khomile buti
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