EWN reports that a Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) and four directors at the Midvaal Local Municipality, which is run by the Democratic Alliance (DA), have been implicated in a cash-for-jobs scandal.  

It was revealed on Monday that deputy municipal manager Thom Peeters had been placed on special leave following allegations that he appointed workers before the interviewing process.  Peeters has been served with a notice of suspension and has until Wednesday to give reasons why he should remain in his position.  However, the whistleblower’s email sent to Midvaal Mayor Bongani Baloyi about corruption at the municipality also implicated Corporate Services MMC Amelia Tsukudu, who was suspended on Tuesday morning.  Baloyi advised that unlike the case in respect of Peeters, Tsukudu’s case had been transferred to the municipality’s ethics committee where, it would be dealt with.  "How you deal with senior management and politicians is very different.  The route I took in dealing with a politician is to write to them about the allegations that are made," Baloyi explained.  He said the municipal manager was investigating the four directors allegedly involved in the corruption.

• Read the full original of Kgomotso Modise’s report on this story at EWN
• Read too, Midvaal municipal official placed on special leave for ‘jobs-for-cash scandal’, at The Citizen

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