The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure:
a) (i) Two
(ii) Two
b) The Board of the IDT is appointed for a period of four years with effect from the date when the Trustees received their letter of authority, dated 05 July 2021.
c) The Accounting Authority is the Board of Trustees. The following are the names of the Board members:
d) i) The details of posts with officials in an acting capacity are as follows:
• Regional General Manager: North West Office
• General Manager: Portfolio Management Services
• Executive Head: Corporate Services Unit
• Regional General Manager: Limpopo Office
• Regional General Manager: Mpumalanga Office
• Senior Manager: Legal Services
• General Manager: Financial Management
• Project Accountant – National Office
• Senior Business Analyst
• Human Resource Development Manager
• Personal Assistant to the CEO
• Programme Manager: Northern Cape
• Committee Officer
• Manager: Employee Relations
ii) These posts have not been permanently filled is due the history of the IDT, whereby the entity has been confronted with a going concern for the last 10 years. The IDT has gone through several phases of turnaround, of which the strategy of 2017 identified the most desirable organisational structure that reduced the staff complement to 310. However, there was a skewed balance between project management and admin staff. The latter formed the majority. There was a process of right-sizing the organisation that was required to be undertaken. The financial challenges and the uncertainty of the future of the IDT led to some of staff leaving. Since 2020, some of the vacant posts could not be filled because the IDT was not generating adequate funding to cover the employee costs.
iii) To date, the progress on filling vacancies is as follows: