Hon Speaker, Cope is shocked at the corrupt and fraudulent act perpetrated by the chief whip of the Northern Cape legislature. In an undated written submission to supply chain management, he requested the chief financial officer to approve a deviation from normal procurement procedures to buy a vehicle for use by the chief whip's office to fulfil their so-called constitutional mandate. That included usage by the other MPL, member of the provincial legislature, who has a constituency office in the rural areas. He argued that he would in fact be effecting a saving in the legislature's budget on vehicle hire.
On 11 November 2010, this was approved, and the vehicle was purchased. If you look closely at these papers here, you will see that this is an actual abuse of public resources. This is so-called "double dipping" by the chief whip of the legislature, who received an allowance for a car yet asks the legislature of the Northern Cape to buy a car for him in order to execute his mandate!
Worse still, the car is registered as the property of the provincial secretary of the ANC in the Northern Cape, Mr Zamani Saul. This is disregard for and an abuse of public resources. As Cope, we ask that this matter be investigated and the Auditor-General must be involved.