Yep, that's right! Less than 50 days since publishing her "5-phase appeals process" statement on 15 December 2022, the fisheries minister, Barbara Creecy, summarily dumped her appeals process timetable when she addressed parliament at the beginning of February 2023!
And she did not have the slightest decency to even explain why she is dumping a committed timetable that was less than 50 days old!
Her "old" 15 December 2022 appeals timetable can be read here. We have detailed the many lies Creecy and her Fisheries DDG, Sue Middleton, told Parliament on our twitter timeline which can be accessed here.
Creecy's "new" unofficial timetable stated before Parliament now commits to the finalisation of only the traditional line fish appeals by February 2023. She had previously committed to finalising all the tuna pole and south coast rock lobster appeals by February 2023. Now, she seems have delayed those to "October 2023". Maybe. Perhaps. Actually, it will not happen. The same applies to the appeals in the remaining fishing sectors - CREECY WILL NOT COMPLETE THEM. Then, Creecy also lied in December 2022 about having completed the demersal shark appeals! She had not! She told Parliament that these appeals may actually only be completed in October 2023.
In our view, her dishonest, nonchalant and inexplicable abandonment of timetables justifies previous right holders in the every fishing sector to approach a court of law for urgent relief against the Minister. For them to continue waiting for this incompetent lot will be commercially fatal.
The appeals process is nothing but a shambolic failure like the #FRAPNEVER #FRAPFAILURE. The KZN Prawn Trawl decisions will be reviewed shortly.
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