A fight between\u00a0Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip and his deputy Mongameli Bobani has resulted in a criminal case being opened against the DA leader.<\/p>\n
Bobani claims that Trollip hired a\u00a0company to “hack” the municipality’s security system, according to a report by the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n
The report states that the Hawks are investigating the allegations, which also involves municipal manager Johan Mentler.<\/p>\n
Mentler allegedly authorised the appointment of Deltron Consulting to “hack the municipal server”, which\u00a0Bobani said puts employee information at risk.<\/p>\n
The report stated that\u00a0Deltron Consulting was appointed after the company which partially installed the municipal security system and fibre lines,\u00a0Afrisec, was forced to abort the project.<\/p>\n
This left equipment and systems unused, and in 2016 the DA asked Afrisec to\u00a0hand over the municipality’s electronic file management system when its contract ended.<\/p>\n
Deltron was then appointed to hack the system, stated the Sunday Times, which reportedly led to the “collapse of the municipality’s ICT system”.<\/p>\n
This included security, biometric access, and surveillance systems. Trollip has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Trollip has made waves since his appointment as mayor – including the launch of\u00a0an anti-corruption hotline<\/strong><\/a> shortly after he took office, which resulted in\u00a0multiple internal investigations.<\/p>\n A fight between Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip and his deputy Mongameli Bobani has resulted in a criminal case being opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":162504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8999,35],"class_list":["post-210592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-da","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210592\/revisions\/210596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Global cyber ransom attack spreads to South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"