The Amathole district municipality paid hundreds of millions of rand for questionable tenders, with more than R230m between 2017 and this year paid to service providers whose contracts have been red-flagged by the ailing council’s new leadership. The struggling municipality has recently battled to pay staff salaries.
Soweto-born Sibongile Mngadi, founder and owner of Uku’hamba Prosthetics and Orthotics, said winning R1.3m in business funding is a testament that some corporates are starting to believe in upcoming young entrepreneurs.
While many taxpayers struggle to make ends meet, ministers and their deputies - who earn a salary of between R2.5 and R2m a year - do not pay anything for municipal services such as water and electricity at their official residences.
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