TSHWANE’S CITY MANAGER TAKES ON MAYOR MSIMANGA

AFTER successfully interdicting City of Tshwane executive mayor Solly Msimanga, pictured, from tabling the report on the GladAfrica tender at the Labour Court, city manager Moeketsi Mosola has his gloves off and ready to fight against what he describes as “political bullying”.

In the wake of Mosola being granted an interdict by the court on Thursday to have the GladAfrica report, looking into Mosola’s role in the alleged irregular awarding of a R12 billion infrastructure management project, before the full council, the city manager has vowed to fight for his job.

Mosola, who will return to court on November 9 said Msimanga had written a letter to him on August

8 to give him an explanation of the procurement process that led to the awarding of the project to GladAfrica.

He said he gave Msimanga a 10-page response on August 13 and two days later Msimanga told him he was happy with his response and the matter would end there, although he later gave the file to journalists at a press conference and later the Hawks.

“In a very dramatic way seven days later the mayor tables a report in council asking that I be suspended summarily and the council refused to do that saying there was no sufficient basis to suspend me,” Mosola said.

He said Msimanga had failed twice to suspend him within a month and that this was a clear indication of intimidation and bullying.

Mosola said: “We started very well with everything going fine until he could see that this is a city manager who knows what he’s doing and a city manager who cannot be controlled.” In a response to accusations, Msimanga said Mosola had attacked the DA at time when the party had taken “very strong steps” to address questions surrounding the GladAfrica tender in which Mosola is allegedly implicated.

“He also accused the DA of looting in the city which is ludicrous given how hard the DA administration has fought to have alleged irregularities investigated, not just in the case of GladAfrica, but across a range of tenders.”