ANC FIRED BLOUBERG MUNICIPAL MAYOR SEKGOLOANE SERITE

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Makgato Machaba

The flamboyant mayor alongside the troublesome Tlhalifi Mashamaite of Mokgalakwena where ordered to pack their stuff and leave the mayoral offices. ANC taken measures to discipline Up to 23 defiant counsellors who swallowed their ego and teamed up with their opposition parties last year, they have been major report which has not been escalated sufficiently.

The case of Sekgolwane Serite also point him into a biggest corruption in his serving term, This followed a KPMG forensic report implicating him in corruption amounting to R1.5 million.

The ANC had responded by expelling its 23 councillors for colluding with opposition parties. Among them were two former mayors and a Speaker. The party had then reinstalled Mashamaite.

On Tuesday, ANC provincial secretary Nocks Seabi said Mashamaite was removed for failing to unite the council.

“Comrade Mashamaite tried to unite the municipality but we need to change the gear now,” said Seabi.

He defended his party for reappointing Mashamaite as mayor, despite indications that he was no longer wanted.

Justifying the reappointment at the time, Seabi said:

“When there are challenges, we always look up to the leader. As the ANC, we believe in engaging but we no longer have time.”

DA provincial leader Jacques Smalle said the ANC was tacitly acknowledging that Mashamaite was unfit to be mayor.

But Seabi hit back, saying the DA was being opportunistic. “We are just doing our jobs. That municipality is governed by the ANC,” said Seabi.

Smalle said Mashamaite should repay the money he allegedly misused.

Mashamaite has denied wrongdoing. He hogged media headlines last year as he had 27 bodyguards.

Seabi said the Department of Co-operative Governance was best suited to deal with the recommendations of the forensic report.

Departmental spokesman Motupa Selomo said: “We are doing a comprehensive investigation into the activities in that municipality. We take cognisance of the KPMG report and the auditor-general’s findings.”

Seabi said the two mayors would be replaced in the next two weeks.

Last year, the ANC fired four mayors who were believed to be former allies of EFF leader Julius Malema.

The surrounding areas in blouberg tip toe to hear what is going on, but as ussual. The ANC of style and principle will adjourne this allegations if this corruption sink too deep, if this is not withdrawn or forgotten. The mayor will be fired for good.

Many people spoke on behalf of Sekgoloane Serite and explain how hard he have been working. Satellites offices, boreholes, installation of green rooms, taxi ranks, stadium, malls, roads, electric. According to investigation this praisings are just for flush, some of this project have no Serite's names on them, 17 km tar road, waterlines pipes and a damn in Alldays area was a clear project done without his concern and utterances.

but then its a sweat for the bound misery roudes, someone might intervene with bold formula hence others will say its politics as usual. What are your thought about serite?