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Mail & Guardian reports that the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial executive committee has axed Umdoni mayor Thabani Dube and the municipality’s chief whip, Bonginkosi Mngadi, after it discovered that officials claimed “danger pay” for working during SA’s hard Covid-19 lockdown.
This occurred under the duo’s watch. The party’s provincial secretary, Mdumiseni Ntuli, indicated last week that because of blatantly poor leadership at Umdoni, service delivery had regressed and the “embodiment” of the problems could be found in chief whip Mngadi and mayor Dube. An example of their leadership failures related to management claiming danger pay during the hard lockdown, which Ntuli said “we were very, very unhappy with”. He went on to explain: “They paid without it (danger pay) being regulated by a policy of the municipality, let alone a decision of the council. So, we said to the leadership there: How did this happen under your watch? And when we raised our concerns, those who had received the danger pay started paying back the money, which means they knew from the time they were doing the thing that it was absolutely wrong, it was illegal, [and] it should not have happened.” The municipality is currently in the midst of a rates dispute with a residents’ group, which is refusing payment until adequate service delivery and infrastructure maintenance takes place. The level of chaos within the municipality has been compounded by the Covid-19 lockdown having a detrimental effect on the region’s usually year-round tourism industry
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Des Erasmus at Mail and Guardian (paywall access only)
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