UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE: Shenanigans, suspicions and sex crimes in MEC’s report on state of Inxuba Yethemba municipality

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When the Eastern Cape’s MEC for cooperative governance, Xolile Nqatha, sent a team to investigate the Inxuba Yethemba municipality – supposedly providing services to Cradock and Middelburg – investigators returned with a report reading like a script for a soap opera. There were reports of sexual harassment and corruption and evidence that the council wanted to use R7-million in Covid-19 relief funds to renovate their chambers.

This is the phrase scattered throughout a report after an investigation into the Inxuba Yethemba municipality was triggered by a petition from residents desperate to get even the most basic service delivery from their councillors.

Investigators were dispatched to the two towns. They reported back to Nqatha, who publicly released the findings on 12 February. – Managers for supply chain management and internal audit managers had been on suspension for longer than three months. Pension and medical aid contributions from employees are not being paid over to the respective funds. Last year, finance minister Tito Mboweni said this was a crime.

There are allegations that councillors used material for RDP homes to upgrade their own homes. These were referred to the police for investigation. There was a sudden and unexplained R7-million price reduction in the construction costs for a community hall. This will be investigated by the provincial treasury.

 

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