SA’s biggest municipal union must restore trust after graft report

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🔒Allegations of widespread financial mismanagement spanning several years have left the once prestigious South African Municipal Workers’ Union in tatters, and with only dim signs of it being put back together.

A forensic report has found that R88-million was looted from the municipal workers’ union, Samwu, between 2012 and 2015. Allegations of widespread financial mismanagement spanning several years have left the once prestigious South African Municipal Workers’ Union in tatters, and with only dim signs of it being put back together.

A damning Ernst & Young report, tabled at a Samwu central executive committee meeting this week, is the latest in a series of blows., was commissioned by Sawmu’s former leadership after it became concerned about the rate at which the union’s funds were depleted between 2012 and 2015.

 

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