New SA Tourism board expected in four months

CAPE TOWN - Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says she expects the process to appoint a new SA Tourism board to take up to four months.

De Lille dissolved the board following the disastrous plan for SA to sponsor football club Tottenham Hotspur.

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But the plan was scrapped before it could go through.

"There will be an interim board until I can appoint a new board," De Lille said.

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"The process is that I have to advertise for 30 days. Thereafter we need to do the shortlisting and the interviews.

"Thereafter all the recommended board members need to go through a vetting process by the South African Security Agency," she said. 

"I suspect it can take anything between three to four months, depending on how quickly the vetting can be done."