Probe called into R4.8m Covid info campaign

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The company contracted to carry out the campaign invoiced R4.8m for the job, claiming its employees had spoken to 6,400 people. Yet many of those listed on the community workers’ forms said no one has ever knocked on their door.

The company claims to have done door-to-door visits at Majola in Port St Johns, Hole in the Wall and Tubase in King Sabatha Dalindyebo municipality, Libode and Ngqeleni in Nyandeni local municipality and Etwa in Mhlontlo municipality.

“All such campaigns are managed in my office, but I cannot say if this did take place and what was done. I was assured that this matter has not been paid,” Nkompela said. The phone of the owner of the Phathilizwi Training Institution, Phumza Gambule, was answered yesterday by someone claiming to be her cousin, who said Gambule was not prepared to comment.

Nkompela said Hlazo had been suspended as a precaution and this was an interim measure “because as the accounting officer,the council could not mandate the municipal manager to open a criminal case against himself, hence we opted to place him on precautionary suspension and elect an acting municipal manager for him to open the criminal case”.

 

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