Struggling Emfuleni municipality's R60m wasteful expenditure exposed

[schumi]

Johannesburg - The embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality in Gauteng, which has been placed under administration due to poor service delivery, must recover R60 million from a service provider which benefited from an irregular contract extension which it granted.

This is according to a leaked forensic report into allegations of wasteful expenditure at the municipality, which is among the poorest in the country, during the 2017/2018 financial year.

The report, compiled by forensic company Comperio Consulting and seen by Sunday Independent, shows that the money to be recouped from Mafoko Security includes R1.8 million in duplicate payments, overcharges for vehicles and increased monthly fees.

Emfuleni Municipality is one of the worst performing in the country. In his 2017-2018 municipal audit report, Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu revealed that Emfuleni's books were not audited following the shooting of one of the auditors in the leg.

Emfuleni, which has experienced massive service delivery challenges to a point it could not even pay utility bills and collect rubbish, was then placed under administration last year due to financial mismanagement and lack of service delivery.

At the time, Gauteng Premier David Makhura said the municipality was not able to guarantee the provision of a minimum standard of services to communities without intervention from the national or provincial government.

More at : https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindepen...ys-r60m-wasteful-expenditure-exposed-34215354

 

[borro]

Good stories will be told.

 

[daveza]

must recover R60 million from a service provider which benefited from an irregular contract extension which it granted.

Sorry, money can't be traced....

 

[santaman202]

The money has been spent on luxurious cars, houses and parties that never end. Soon all their parties will come to an end and while they are starving their heroes (zuma, magashule, mantashe, motsepe etc) will enjoy the comfort of their penthouses in saudi.

Viva ANC !

 

[daveza]

will enjoy the comfort of their penthouses in saudi.

I would rather live in a hovel right here.

 

[Sean008]

Headline would read much better had it said : R60M wateful expenditure RECOVERED !

 

[TheChamp]

The money has been spent on luxurious cars, houses and parties that never end. Soon all their parties will come to an end and while they are starving their heroes (zuma, magashule, mantashe, motsepe etc) will enjoy the comfort of their penthouses in saudi.

Viva ANC !

Motsepe has touched too many people today...

 

[surface]

Motsepe has touched too many people today...

hadn't seen news24 till now.

 

[TheChamp]

hadn't seen news24 till now.

Wait till people hear he wants to buy a 50% share of the Blue Bulls, all hell is going to break loose.

 

[Solitude]

This is how we do things in Africa. It's what the people want.

 

[ForceFate]

Motsepe has touched too many people today...

Lol

 

[Hemps]

This is how we do things in Africa. It's what the people want.

The people want to part of the looting, Africa's me , myself and I mentality.

 

[Mila]

Anybody in Jail yet?

 

[VooDooC]

Vanderbijlpark/Vereeniging was at one point some of the best run and wealthiest towns in SA, it has gone to shite in the last 10-15 years.

There are roads there that hasn't been fixed for almost 25 years, potholes where your car could disappear in. People are using private businesses to remove garbage as the municipality can't afford garbage trucks anymore... but hey the mayor can spend R1.7mil on KFC so all is good.

 

[Compton_effect]

Last year they renovated the municipal offices and moved all the staff to temporary accommodation in the old OK Bazaar building. Problem is - they didn't move their office furniture, or equipment, or arrange any network infrastructure. If you walked up the stairs to the second floor, you'd find everyone sitting on their office chairs in this enormous open space (brought them themselves) - playing on their smartphones.

 

[TheChamp]

This Emfuleni sounds like a mess, you people should move to Joburg.

 

[Solitude]

This Emfuleni sounds like a mess, you people should move to Joburg.

That's what I did. Used to live in Vanderbijlpark and then moved to Joburg about 10 years ago. It's a shame to see what has happened to the whole Emfuleni district.