President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit SIU to investigate allegations of serious maladministration at the uMzinyathi District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal.
This covers the period from March 2020 to November last year and includes the allegedly inflated price paid for a generator for the Vants Drift Water Treatment Plant in Nquthu.
The municipal manager was suspended last year due to corruption allegations relating to a payment of R5.7m for water projects that were never undertaken.
