The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s disciplinary board has raised a red flag on how a contract for a company to act as a middleman between SMMEs and the metro went up from R17m to R51m calling for the tender to be probed further.
After cancelling the normal tender process, economic development executive director and current acting city manager Anele Qaba has been accused of signing a deviation the very next day that ultimately led to a company being handpicked as a middleman between the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and SMMEs.