IOL reports that former Tshwane mayor Dr Murunwa Makwarela may face both fraud and perjury charges after submitting a fake insolvency rehabilitation certificate in order to retain his mayoral position.

Cope’s Makwarela was voted in as mayor on 1 March following the resignation of the DA’s Randall Williams. Makwarela was then removed as mayor due to being insolvent on 7 March, but was reinstated two days later after he submitted an insolvency rehabilitation certificate. A day later, the certificate was discovered upon investigation to be fake. Makwarela resigned as the executive mayor and a councillor when the North Gauteng High Court revealed that his debt rehabilitation certificate was indeed fake. The multiparty coalition led by the DA laid charges of fraud against the former mayor at the Brooklyn police station on Friday. Attorney Nthabiseng Dubazana commented: “Fraudulent court documents fall under the crime of perjury so what would happen is that the registry of the court would investigate and should they find that perhaps there was a matter relating to the former mayor and that matter remains unresolved, meaning that he was not rehabilitated, then it would mean that they made a fraudulent announcement of a court order and they would face criminal charges.” He added: “This means they would face charges of fraud and they would also face charges of perjury for their misrepresentation of the true facts.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sisipho Bhuta at IOL
• Lees ook, Tshwane-burgemeester se sertifikaat glo vervals, by Maroela Media

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