Tshwane sues 5 managers

TURNAROUND: CITY CLAMPS DOWN ON OFFICIALS OVER BAD EXPENDITURE

- Antoinette Slabbert

Probe of R160m failed tender, among others, sees metro awarded for better financial management.

Five managers of the Tshwane Metropolitan Council have been sued by their employer for about R160 million over a tender that went wrong in 2018, leading to massive unauthorised expenses.

Others are under scrutiny for a music festival that then-mayor Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, now the minister of energy and electricity, intended to boost the city's economy for which the council spent R60 million in 2014. The festival never took place and all the money was wasted. Audit firm KPMG completed an investigation into the debacle in 2017, and the council is finally acting against the culprits.

This is part of the work for which the municipal association Salga recently honoured the Tshwane Metropolitan Council.

The council received three awards:

► Award for the most improved revenue collection and debt management at 92%;

► First runner-up for utilising municipal grants and service delivery at 84%; and