The chairperson of the Johannesburg Property Company has been fired for failure to implement the recommendations of an SIU report which found that senior managers of the entity were implicated in financial misconduct.
The City of Johannesburg has removed the chairperson of the Joburg Property Company (JPC) following his alleged failure to address a damning Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report. MMC for Economic Development Nkululeko Mbundu said the City had agreed to "effect urgent and important changes to the board of directors" at the JPC.
Johannesburg Property Company (JPC) CEO Helen Botes and CFO Imraan Bhamjee are due to return to their posts soon despite a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report revealing evidence that the pair may be guilty of financial misconduct regarding deep cleaning and sanitising contracts awarded during the coronavirus pandemic.
Botes and Bhamjee were suspended in September 2020 after investigations into the JPC contracts were tabled in the Johannesburg City Council.
In March 2021, the SIU informed acting Johannesburg City manager Floyd Brink and acting JPC CEO Asanda Majova it had completed its investigation into the contracts and found evidence that Botes, Bhamjee and three other officials may be guilty of financial misconduct.
Mayor to probe R18m PPE corruption allegations at Joburg Property Company
By Ntombi Nkosi
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Johannesburg - The City of Joburg mayor, Geoffrey Makhubo, is in receipt of a report from the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on allegations of financial misconduct and corruption at the Joburg Property Company (JPC), especially related to the Covid-19 response expenditure.
A senior official at the JPC allegedly awarded personal protective equipment contracts irregularly, costing the municipality at least R18 million in fruitless and wasteful expenditure last year.
The tender in question was awarded to four companies for deep cleaning and sanitisation services during the national state of disaster in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the SIU report.