Call for Msunduzi to step up fight against corruption
A ratepayers association in Pietermaritzburg says more must be done to fight corruption in Msunduzi.
It's after a former municipal worker was handed a 10-year prison sentence for bribery and corruption.
Nhlakanipho Dlamini is the city's former fleet supervisor.
Last week, he was found guilty of demanding R100,000 from a service provider in exchange for processing a R1.5 million municipal payment.
Anthony Waldhausen, CEO of the Msunduzi Association of Residents, Ratepayers and Civics, says more arrests must be made to rid the city of bad apples.
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" We see a lot of wasteful and irregular expenditure happening at the municipality, and we are aware that there is a high level of corruption in our municipality - one of the reasons why our municipality is dysfunctional."
Waldhausen says the municipality must take further steps to prevent future cases of corruption.
"The municipal public accounts committee needs to be much more vigilant and involved in the process of actually monitoring the actual departments that are spending funds of the public. There also needs to be much more support towards the whistleblower so that they can expose the corruption."
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