AbaQulusi to settle with aggrieved Director

DIRECTOR of Corporate Services, Nana Sibisi, has been offered a settlement to terminate her contract with the AbaQulusi municipality, say reliable sources.

Ms Sibisi was being paid her full monthly salary of R90 000 despite not being at work for more than a year.

At first Ms Sibisi refused to return to work saying that she did not feel safe after being physically forced out of her office during a municipal strike last year. After a couple of months’ absence, she was suspended by council, with full pay, when, “some of the agreements she signed, while she had been acting in the position of municipal manager, were found to be questionable.”

Ms Sibisi returned to work in March after her three-month suspension period had lapsed, but she was told by current acting municipal manager, Bongiwe Mnikathi, “To get out of the office.” Ms Mnikathi, accompanied by two security guards, then locked Ms Sibisi’s office door and blocked her access disk.

Now, it is believed that the municipality’s Durban-based legal representatives, Garlicke and Bousfield, met with Ms Sibisi last Monday to negotiate a settlement.

AbaQulusi’s media liaison officer, Arnold Ramodibe, said, “The settlement is subject to approval by council and has not been finalized, no contract has been paid out.”

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