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Municipalities have discretion whether or not to make disclosures of council members or officials public and few municipalities apply this function due to concerns about privacy.
“It is very difficult to have reliable information...it is not...something that many municipalities apply. And I think, you know, for obvious reasons that they would be concerned around, you know, disclosing these.”
Mr Nku is not a tenderpreneur and does not run a business tendering for municipalities or government but is a business consultant for clients who are tenderpreneurs.
“I am not a tenderpreneur. I am a business consultant who have clients which are tenderpreneurs, but I do not run a business which is tendering for municipalities and government”
Commissioner Bolhuis is appalled at the corruption taking place in the City of Tshwane and most municipalities and government departments and emphasizes the expected loyalty, ethics and service from public servants.
“I am appalled at the corruption taking place in the City of Tshwane and, for that matter, at most municipalities and government departments. We are public servants and it is expected of us to be loyal, ethical, and serve our people.”
Municipal tender processes are often delayed, causing contracts to be extended past their expiry, favoring certain companies.
“Why is it that you continuously see this thing where a tender is advertised, you know that the previous contract is a three-year contract and it is going to expire at the end of February, but you do not complete the evaluation process and the new appointment before the end of February. And then you have to favour the companies that were appointed under the previous tender because you continuously extend their contracts and they get paid out of the municipality when in truth their term has expired because it was a three-year term. You are effectively giving them three and a half years now.”
The infographic summarizes payments from municipalities to companies owned by Mr Carrim, totalling about R336 million.
“the infographics provides a summary of payments from municipalities in the area in respect of which Mr Carrim is the ANC treasurer, to companies owned by Mr Carrim. It gives a breakdown of where the 300, and I think it is R336 million or R332 million that these municipalities have paid to Mr Carrim, where it comes from.”