Speaker, the DA has noted the partially released Manase report on eThekwini Municipality. We note that it has confirmed what people have long suspected, that the ANC-run eThekwini Municipality is riddled with widespread fraud, corruption and maladministration, involving councillors, officials and a web of connected contractors. On top of other reports, including the Public Protector's latest findings on the Dipaleseng Municipality, it reinforces what more and more South Africans are coming to realise, that the ANC cannot be trusted to run local government. The real question we have to be asking in the House today is why this municipality is yet to release the full Manase report and all its annexures. The report deals with the findings of an inquiry into a public institution, paid for with public money, and the public is therefore entitled to the full set of findings. The fact that it has not been released in its entirety begs a very obvious question: What is still being covered up in eThekwini?
The DA calls on the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to intervene and compel the MEC, Nomsa Dube, and the municipality to release the full report so that the full set of facts can be placed before the public and the councillors in eThekwini. It is essential that all the problems be laid bare, no matter how politically uncomfortable or embarrassing they may be for the ANC. [Applause.]