In a day of high drama, where it emerged that two Patriotic Alliance councillors had received death threats warning them against supporting a move to oust mayor Gary van Niekerk, the Nelson Mandela Bay council placed city boss Noxolo Nqwazi on precautionary suspension yet again.
Suspended Nelson Mandela Bay housing boss Mvuleni Mapu invested R900,000 allegedly given to him by his co-accused less than three months before a multimillion-rand tender was awarded to her company.
A push to have a Special Investigation Unit (SIU) report into a R24m toilet tender reviewed and set aside has been rejected by the courts because the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality was only able to prove its dislike of the adverse findings.
Suspended metro housing boss Mvuleni Mapu was back in the Gqeberha commercial crimes court on Monday, where he, along with three others, face charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice and contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA).