Sikonathi Mantshantsha

The Ekurhuleni Municipality’s chief audit executive, Phillip Rakgwale, appears to have altered and sanitised the scathing findings of Mpho Mafole’s audit report pointing out irregularities and raising questions about the procurement system followed with regard to a mobile chemical toilets contract.

Ekurhuleni’s chief auditor, Mpho Mafole, was killed three days after he handed over a report setting out irregularities and questioning the probity of the mobile chemical toilets procurement tender. This is how the hitmen did it.

An investigation into the sewage infrastructure breakdown in the Mogale Local Municipality revealed massive pollution of critical water sources and a total breakdown of sewage reticulation that are killing off businesses and jobs.

As part of a contract probed by auditor Mpho Mafole before he was killed, the Ekurhuleni municipality paid more than R24 million to a supplier, Theuwedi Trading Enterprise, but the municipality cannot tell if the contractor has the facilities or staff to deliver.

The lifestyle of Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim is funded by two shadowy entities that allegedly maintain close links to an American billionaire, according to documents seen by News24 and sources with direct knowledge of Jim’s affairs.