GAUTENG. – Die DA het sy steun uitgespreek vir die spesiale ondersoekeenheid (SOE) se ondersoek na R777 miljoen, wat gedurende die 2024/2025 finansiële jaar deur die Stad Tshwane aan watertenkwaens bestee is. Die DA sê die ondersoek kan help om moontlike wanbestuur en korrupsie oop te vlek.
Cilliers Brink, die DA se Tshwane-burgemeesterskandidaat, sê onlangse onthullings dui daarop dat sekere maatskappye groot kontrakte ontvang het en glo bande met ANC-leiers het, al beskik hulle nie oor die nodige toerusting nie. Onder dié wat genoem word, is adjunkburgemeester en finansiële LUR Eugene Modise. Volgens die DA het uitgawes aan watertenkwaens skerp toegeneem nadat die ANC die stadsbestuur oorgeneem het.
Die ANC hou glo egter vol dat hulle tydens hul bewind ’n tender weens onreëlmatighede gestop het en geweier het om twyfelagtige fakture te betaal. Die DA beweer dié betalings is later wel gemaak nadat hulle uit die regering verwyder is, wat volgens hulle tot ’n reusetoename in besteding gelei het.
Die DA dring daarop aan dat Nasiphi Moya, die uitvoerende burgemeester, moet ingryp en optree teen die betrokke amptenare. Hulle beplan ook om die kwessie tydens ’n komende raadsvergadering op die tafel te plaas vir verdere ondersoek.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the SIU investigation into the R777 million spent on water tankers by the City of Tshwane in the 2024/2025 financial year. This is an important step towards uncovering the full extent of corruption and abuse by Tshwane’s water tanker mafia.The seriousness of this matter was further underscored by a Sunday Times report published yesterday, which exposed that companies linked to two senior ANC leaders – most notably ANC Deputy Mayor and MMC for Finance, Eugene Modise – received R31.7 million in water tanker contracts despite not owning a single water tanker.This ballooning of water tanker expenditure under this ANC-led administration has laid bare the real reason the ANC removed the DA from government in Tshwane.In June 2024, the DA-led administration cancelled a water tanker tender before it could be awarded after material irregularities were identified. The DA administration also refused to pay water tanker operators who protested at Tshwane House while presenting invoices that had no purchase order numbers.Shortly thereafter, the ANC in Tshwane announced that it would bring a motion of no confidence to remove me. Once the ANC, with the assistance of ActionSA, succeeded in removing the DA-led government, one of its first actions was to dust off those same invoices and pay them – despite there being no proof that the tankers had actually operated.The result was a staggering 455% increase in water tanker expenditure in a single financial year.It is now becoming increasingly clear that Deputy Executive Mayor Eugene Modise acted in his own interests, with the support of senior ANC figures, to keep public funds flowing into the hands of ANC-linked water tanker operators.The Executive Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya, must act now. The power to appoint and dismiss members of the Mayoral Committee resides in her office, and she should use that power immediately to remove Eugene Modise as MMC for Finance.If she chooses not to act, she will expose herself as a Mayor in title only – willing to enjoy the benefits of office while presiding over an administration that protects ANC corruption.The DA will be calling for a debate during the upcoming Ordinary Council Meeting to lay bare the facts surrounding watertankering spending in Tshwane.
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