3 CDM muni managers suspended pending investigations
The three executive managers served the municipality with a court interdict to stop investigation into their activities
LIMPOPO – The Capricorn District Municipality (CDM) has placed the executive managers for infrastructure, corporate services and strategic executive management services on precautionary suspension as they were implicated for misconducted by the municipality.
Spokesperson for CDM, Moffat Senyatsi, says the suspensions follow a number of cases that are being investigated by the municipality. “When the current acting municipal manager, Thuli Shiburi, was appointed and tasked to institute an investigation into various concerns raised by the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU), which among others included the flawed suspension of the acting chief financial officer, the three executive managers served the municipality with a court interdict,” Senyatsi explains.
He continues, saying an interdict, which sought to stop the investigation, was challenged and subsequently dismissed in favour of the municipality.
“On 14 September, a preliminary investigations report was tabled to the new council and its findings implicated the three for misconduct.
A decision was then taken to serve them with notices of intention to suspend and gave them an opportunity to make written representations to the council as to why they should not be suspended,” he says. The council rejected their responses recently and resolved to put them on precautionary suspension.
“The municipality has appointed an external independent investigator in terms of regulations that govern the appointment and conditions of employment of Section 56 managers for further investigations,” he said.
