Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
1) notes the damning forensic audit by auditors KPMG which showed how the Congress of the People wasted millions in public funds in its parliamentary allowance, including over R2 million on its aborted elective party conference in Centurion;
2) further notes that KPMG found that among the financial abuses were the following -
a) people not employed by Cope parliamentary caucus were being paid from parliamentary allowances, including three provincial youth secretaries, who were paid an amount of R213 000 in 18 months without valid employment contracts and an additional R28 000 was spent on their travelling costs;
b) a payment of R155 000 to their Johannesburg-based financial manager Pat Gamede whose employment contract was based on a verbal agreement with Shilowa;
c) an amount of R212 000 to cover legal fees incurred when the hon Mr D Bloem and the hon Mr L Tolo took Parliament to court to stop and/or contest their evictions from houses they were occupying at the Pelican Park parliamentary village;
d) an amount of R330 000 in petty cash withdrawals which took place from June 2009 to May 2010 and no receipts were provided for R110000 of the money;
e) stationery purchases of R739 000 over a year without a signed contract with the supplier; and
(3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such gross abuse of public funds and calls on Parliament to lay criminal charges against all those involved in this utter abuse of public funds.