Lucas Ledwaba
The Mogalakwena Municipality in Limpopo has been instructed to get state security forces to conduct a security risk assessment on its municipal manager after it emerged that Beverly Gunqisa had been threatened by a cabal allegedly in control of the issuing of tenders at the embattled municipality.
Parliament’s CoGTA committee, in the province for an oversight visit, battled for almost two hours to solicit answers from mayor Andrina Matsemela and her executive on the logic behind authorising three months leave for the city’s municipal manager who had been employed only three months before.
Gunqisa was hired in April and mayor Andrina Matsemela signed off on her ‘study leave’ from September to November.
Matsemela, incredulously, didn’t even know what Gunqisa was ‘studying’ for until she sent a SMS to someone who provided the details when pressed by the Committee.
The Committee was later forced to abandon its community meeting following
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