"We need a meeting with law enforcement agencies to look into financial misconduct and irregularities in the municipality as there is no clear indication on the consequence management of those implicated," Dliso said.

"The municipality is only informing the standing committee that some deputy chief financial officer and few officials are on suspension and undergoing disciplinary process and that the same bid committees implicated have been reconstituted." 

He said there was no progress on financial disciplinary cases that have been opened since 2012 at the law enforcement agencies.

According to the 2018/19 audit report, Rustenburg municipality also incurred just over R1 billion in unauthorised expenditure and fruitless and wasteful expenditure of R793,000 due to contravention of supply chain management requirements and policies.

Rustenburg Mayor Mpho Khunou told the committee that disciplinary processes have been instituted against officials in the supply chain including the manager who subsequently resigned in January 2020.

The municipality was requested to submit a detailed plan on consequence management on financial misconduct and cases sent to law enforcement agencies for further investigations.

The municipality was also asked to submit a comprehensive report on all infrastructure projects including those that are incomplete such as the Rustenburg Rapid Transport projects, fleet services contract and contractors responsible.

African News Agency (ANA)