Listen to the recording here:

In the recording that has since gone viral speaker of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM), Maipato “Phado” Tsokolibane is heard insulting her colleagues and their mothers, unleashing profanities, and bragging about her R30 000 shoes and her wealth.

This comes after the case of 33 ELM officials who had been implicated in a massive looting spree.

It is alleged that Tsokolibane was having the conversation with ELM’s chief whip, Christina Sale.

In the audio speaking in SeSotho Tsokolibane said:

“I want those ones who are busy saying granny to me. Where are their mothers? They must call their mothers to come and lead with us here, so that we can see what their mothers can do. These thieves and primary school dropouts.

I am not a dropout; I went to school and I worked for 35 years. I have my own money, and I am not a beggar of R30 000, and they think I am a beggar. I worked and I was a principal for 35 years, and I worked at the municipality for 20 years, and I have money. R30 000??? Their mother’s ###

Chief Whip, my shoes cost R30 000 – my shoes, even the houses I have bought, I do not buy them with stolen money from Emfuleni or Sedibeng. Wherever I worked and whatever I have acquired is through my sweat, and nobody is going to tell me about R30 000.

I buried my son with R200 000 and I filled up Sharpeville stadium. I did not even ask for a single cent from the municipality, and it’s even worse that they didn’t even donate a flower.

All these rubbish people who think we are at their mercy will leave the municipality. These thinks that do not qualify, this municipality is collapsing because of these rubbish people.

Saying Gogo their mothers are stupid grannies basking in the sun in the township, wrapping themselves with shawls.

Damn these rubbish people, they are full of themselves, these things.”