1. Appointment of the Board of Directors of the Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) follows a call for nominations, assessment of nominees by the appointed selection committee and shortlisting of nominees who best meet the criteria. The call for nominations advert also specified the requirement for nominees to be fit for appointment as board members. OBP will be requested to conduct personnel suitability checks on all appointees.
The notice inviting nominations specified that personnel suitability checks will be conducted on suitable candidates.
The appointment letters of the new members stated that their appointments were subject to a personnel suitability process.
2. No. There is no record of an investigation at the instance of SA Weather Services into the specified person.