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MASETLHA STAYS AS HOME AFFAIRS DG.

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Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi will be going into the new year with the same director-general, despite his repeated attempts to get President Thabo Mbeki to fire him. Buthelezi, who is also leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, has been at loggerheads with his DG Billy Masetlha, a former African National Congress intelligence operative, for months, virtually paralysing the department. He had at least two inconclusive meetings on the issue with Mbeki, the most recent in early November. In terms of the Public Service Act, the president appoints directors-general. Presidential spokesman Bheki Khumalo said on Sunday, in response to a claim in a weekend newspaper that Buthelezi ...

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