Murunwa Makwarela resigns as Tshwane Mayor a day after reinstatement

PHUTI MOSOMANE

TSHWANE mayor Murunwa Makwarela has resigned with immediate after he was busted for fraud and allegedly submitting falsified documents to land a cushy job at the City council.

This follows confirmation by the Chief Registrar of the High Court in Pretoria Tumelo Ledwaba that the rehabilitation certificate submitted to the Tshwane City Manager Johann Mettler was “fake”.

Ledwaba said he has approached the Hawks to institute criminal proceedings into Makwarela’s insolvency clearance certificate saga.

“I, Tumelo Refilwe Ledwaba, the Chief Registrar of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division Pretoria hereby confirm that the document purporting to be an order issued by this Court was never issued by our Court”, Ledwaba said.

“I also confirm that no rehabilitation order has ever been issued regarding the parties named in the said document. I am also referring this matter to the office of the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigations