ANC keeping DA defectors on municipal payroll illegally: report
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan is allegedly keeping DA councillors who defected to the ANC on the municipal payroll, despite their defection having cost them their jobs.
This is according to a report by the City Press, which received a tip-off from an anonymous municipal employee in the area.
The implication is that Jordaan is paying ex DA members to remain with the ANC, despite them nolonger having given up their jobs as DA councillors.
According to the source, a meeting took place on Friday (1 July) where the municipal corporate division was ordered – allegedly by Jordaan – to authorise salary payments for the seven DA councillors who defected to the ANC.
Because the councillors defected, they are considered expelled from the DA, and therefore cannot represent the party as councillors. It is therefore illegal to keep paying them, the source said.
The former DA councillors are: Mzukisi Ncamani, Knight Mali, Bahle Ngqondela, Penny Naidoo, Nico du Plessis, Brian Kivedo and Isaac Adams.
According to DA mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, speaking to the City Press, the councillors had defected because they had not met the party’s selection criteria for re-election in 2016.
They councillors were supposed to have forfeited R150,000 each, he said.
The municipality has reportedly denied any knowledge of the payments, while the DA has taken legal action against having the councillors on the payroll, calling it illegal and fraudulent.
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