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IOL News reports that the City of Ekurhuleni’s municipal regulations were allegedly changed to shield Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Deputy Chief, Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi, from disciplinary proceedings.
This happened after Mkhwanazi signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) illegally with companies linked to Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala. Mkhwanazi’s MoUs would have resulted in the outsourcing of blue light services, legal, health, mayoral VIP Protection Services, and the administration of the Workmen’s Compensation Fund to Matlala, a tenderpreneur accused of attempted murder. This was revealed to the Madlanga Commission by Xolani Nciza, the former Divisional Head of Employee Relations at the City of Ekurhuleni. Nciza said that the City Manager, Dr Imogen Mashazi, sent out an internal memo changing the rules on the handling of disciplinary proceedings. Mashazi’s letter read: “Request for allegations to be investigated must be submitted to HOD Corporate Legal Services (Advocate Kemi Behari). Upon determination of a prima facie case, the HOD Corporate Legal Services (HOD CLS) will confirm the allegations, consider the evidential material, and then submit a report to HOD Human Resources (Linda Gxasheka).”
Nciza explained that Mashazi’s instruction and modifications to the Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures were “illegal, inappropriate, and against the best interests of the City". Nciza said that he submitted a detailed analysis of the implications of the changes to the City Manager. Mkhwanazi has since been suspended amid allegations aired publicly during the commission’s proceedings.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Gcwalisile Khanyile at IOL News
- Read too, How Ekurhuleni officials shielded Brig Mkhwanazim, at SowetanLive
- And also, City of Ekurhuleni 'rooted in corruption, irregularities', Nciza tells Madlanga Commission, at EWN
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