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City’s R53m recovery plan faces opposition backlash
The Mercury
|September 30, 2025
CLAIMS that the eThekwini Municipality intends to recover R53 million from a former employee implicated in wrongful actions have been criticised as a farce by opposition parties.
The office of Deputy President Paul Mashatile has come under fire from opposition parties after it claimed in replies to Parliament that the eThekwini Municipality intended to recover close to R53 million from a former employee.
Mzamo Billy, a DA MP and member of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), questioned what the national government was doing to hold the municipality and anyone in the municipality who had acted wrongly accountable after the municipality was forced to pay R53 million to a service provider.
The issue concerns a settlement agreement made by the municipality with a service provider after a legal dispute arose.
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