Sihle Mavuso
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has promised sweeping skills and financial audits at eThekwini Municipality if it takes control of the metro after the November 4 local government elections, saying any suspected corruption will be referred for criminal investigation.
DA KwaZulu-Natal leader Sithembiso Ngema made the pledge in Durban as the party unveiled candidates for all 112 wards that will be contested in the metro.
Ngema said a DA-led administration would scrutinise the municipality’s workforce and finances and pursue the recovery of ratepayers’ money found to have been unlawfully lost or misappropriated.
“We are not going to tolerate the corruption that is taking place in eThekwini, when Hanniff (Hoosen, the DA’s mayoral candidate in eThekwini) takes over we are going to do a skills audit, we are going to do a financial audit and those mayors, those MMs and those city managers who are implicated [in wrongdoing] we are
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