Makana Municipality has adopted the plan to implement the findings of the Kabuso report.
Makana Municipality has adopted the plan to implement the findings of the Kabuso report.
Councillor Mabhuti Matyumza criticised the report, saying it lacked legal impetus. He suggested there needed to be clear time frames included in the processes to be followed.
In the meeting on Wednesday this week, the Council was meant to consider the implementation plan to ensure that the municipality acts on the findings of the Kabuso report.
Councillor Julie Wells suggested that administrator Jongisizwe Gomomo be the person to oversee its implementation, rather than acting municipal manager Riana Meiring who, along with scores of municipal officials and councillors, is named in the report.
The six-page implementation plan is a public document and it lists both former and current councillors and officials accused of wrongdoing during the time the investigation was conducted.
Ramokolo said any future discussion on the report in Council would thus be treated as public and would no longer be a confidential item.
Makana Municipality has appointed a committee to investigate councillors implicated in corruption in the Kabuso audit firm's report.
The committee will be made up of five councillors from the three political parties in the Makana Council and will be chaired by ANC councillor Vuyani Kolisi, with councillor Ernest Louw of the ANC as secretary.
Other councillors on the committee are Nonzameko Thyantsula of the ANC, the DA's Les Reynolds and Nozipho Plaatjie from the Congress of the People.
Earlier this year, there had been a lot of confusion around the four versions of the report produced by the Kabuso audit firm.
In a statement in September, municipal spokesperson Yoliswa Ramokolo confirmed Council had resolved that the version of the report submitted on the 26 February council meeting is deemed to be the final Kabuso report.
Former Council Speaker, Rachel Madinda-Isaac, resigned with immediate effect as a councillor in Makana Municipality on 17 September.
In previous reports it was recommended that both she and former mayor Zamuxolo Peter submit written explanations as to why disciplinary action should not be taken against them in terms of the councillors' code of conduct.
However, in the version of the report that has been adopted by Council, Peter is no longer implicated.
The report recommends that the Council request Madinda-Isaac to provide written explanations as to why action should not be taken in terms of the Code of Conduct.
This is in reference to her signing a settlement agreement with axed municipal manager, Pravine Naidoo, on behalf of Council, without the delegation of such power by Council.
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