Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That this Council -
1) notes the findings of the Public Protector in her report released last week that the DA-controlled Midvaal Municipality in Gauteng had, amongst other transgressions, breached financial and administrative policies; that it had failed to comply with the prescribed debt management and collection procedures; that certain property transactions were unlawful; that the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework had been violated; and that a law firm owned by a DA official had acted as official attorneys for the municipality for several years without going through the proper tender processes;
2) further notes that the preliminary report of the Special Investigating Unit reveals that they are also investigating the council on allegations of procurement irregularities, irregular staff appointments, the abuse of travel and subsistence allowances, fruitless and wasteful expenditure and irregular indigent processes; and
(3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest terms these unlawful actions of this DA municipality while it persists in misleading the public, and calls on Gauteng's MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs to invoke the provisions of section 139 of the Constitution.