Mail & Guardian reports that City of Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga will recommend to council that city manager Moeketsi Mosola be suspended following allegations of tender irregularities.
Mosola has been implicated recently in the awarding of an alleged irregular tender to engineering consultants GladAfrica, worth a reported R12-billion. Mosola denied the allegations in a statement last week, saying all processes had been above board and in line with the Municipal Finance Management Act. Msimanga’s office on Tuesday confirmed that, having requested more information from Mosola last week, the mayor would now recommend to council that a full probe should take place into Mosola and senior officials, and that Mosola be suspended for the duration of the investigation. He would, however, be afforded an opportunity to provide council with reasons why he should not be suspended. The under fire city manager on Sunday claimed on Facebook that “a small group of white people” were targeting him following the firing of former chief of staff Marietha Aucamp. He also claimed that the small group had an issue with GladAfrica being awarded the tender over another Afrikaans one.
- Read this report by Paul Herman in full at Mail & Guardian
Read too, Msimanga to recommend Tshwane city manager be suspended, at News24
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