Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Democratic Alliance-led City of Cape Town continues to show its lack of leadership and understanding of governance issues by splashing out almost a billion rand on consultants in the last financial year;
2) further notes that -
a) in the last financial year the DA has spent over R500 million on consultants, with almost half of this sum being paid for contracts not put to tender;
b) one contractor was paid about R20 million to advise the municipality on the Integrated Rapid Transit, IRT, system and ended up costing it an extra R80 million in unforeseen expenses after saying erroneously that the city was not liable for VAT;
c) PricewaterhouseCoopers was then roped in to advise the city following the VAT blunder and was paid R1,9 million without a tender; and
d) Astii Consortium was paid R10,2 million to do work on the transport management centre without a tender; and
(3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the strongest possible terms the utter disregard of good governance by the DA-led City of Cape Town and its continued flouting of the Municipal Finance Management Act.