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IOL reports that the City of Johannesburg's Transport member of the mayoral committee (MMC) Kenny Kunene has raised ire in some quarters after he personally sponsored bucket loads of expensive French champagne for Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) staff during a women’s month function last week.
Kunene and his wife, Nonkululeko, sponsored R15,000 out of their own pockets towards the champagne, cognac, whiskey and a booming sound system for the workers to mark the occasion. The City of Johannesburg paid for the food at the event which honoured pothole repairers, women bus drivers and other low-paid workers in the transport sector of the City. Kunene is the deputy president of the Patriotic Alliance (PA). His party is in a rocky coalition with the ANC, EFF and other parties. The DA’s Joburg caucus leader, Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku, condemned Kunene’s behaviour as a “vulgar display of excess by the PA”. She added: “While roads are literally exploding in the Joburg CBD, the PA has turned the JRA into a feeding trough for excess and political vulgarity. The DA will further urgently submit a request in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to determine how much taxpayer money was wasted on the PA’s champagne party.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sihle Mlambo at IOL
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