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meant to consider irregularities in the GTM’s Engineering Directorate but then widened into other areas, has been completed and the final report is awaited. It is also said that action against senior officials who are guilty of corruption is unlikely, since they may take revenge and cause a string of officials and/or even councillors to be investigated. In such an event it is a certainty that criminal proceedings will follow. The following unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure is mentioned in the MPAC report:
• Unauthorised: R25 387 498 • Fruitless & wasteful: R1 320 482 • Irregular: R61 967 716. To add insult to injury, the MPAC report also refers to more than R10 million (!) spent on legal fees, and states that there is concern about the number of hours billed by attorneys and rates used by said attorneys. Bulletin reported about
the GTM becoming a dairy cow for a few attorneys more than two years ago. Other expenses that would cause eyebrows to raise are for:
• Expired contracts: R26 503 270 • GTFM (the failed radio station): R81 050 • Supply chain did not follow process: R15 475 809 • Supplier paid for no service/goods: R162 135 It also seems that the council is now looking at adding even more people to the GTM’s already loaded staff compliment, so that they can have watchdogs to watch the watchdogs. If this doesn’t work, they could in future appoint Super watchdogs to watch the watchdogs watching the watchdogs. The solution is, however, to see to it that the employees, and especially the senior management team (directors earning salaries of R1 million and more) just do their work and manage their subordinates . — Francois Aucamp editor@bulletin.us.com
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Close to R100 million — 99,9% of it irrecoverable — unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure by the Greater Tzaneen Municipality in the past financial year will have to be written off ! A report of the GTM’s public accounts committee (MPAC) chairperson, Mr T K Nukeri, about this scandalous situation has been referred back by the council for further consideration for a third time. A senior ANC member says it is a deliberate attempt by the the majority of the current councillors to stall the process, for the new council to handle the potentially explosive and rather sensitive matter. The handful of councillors who are deeply upset about the situation, including the ANC’s political team leaders — like the Speaker (Mr Cassius Machimane) and Mr Moses Mahasha — are said to be fighting a losing battle against their political comrades who seem to be unperturbed. A forensic investigation by KPMG, initially