The DA is guilty of some pretty serious crimes, I would call it terrorist financing to the viciously facist EFF.
This is the charge I make. Now prove me wrong. Here are the facts.
The DA went into an agreement with the EFF after the 2016 local government election as the DA did not have the required 50 % to govern alone and needed the EFF’s support .That is how DA mayors came to power in Tshwane, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.
In January 2017 Tshwane DA mayor Solly Msimanga appointed a new City Manager for Tshwane, a man who had never worked in local government – Moeketsi Mosola.
The DA and Msimanga lies started immediately.
The DA and their cheerleaders said at the time that Mosola was the best man for the job and an example of black exellence in management.
The fact of the matter was that Msimanga tore up the shortlist of 5 suitably qualified people and then went headhunting and in the end appointed Mosola.
What Msimanga did not tell us at the time is that this was an EFF condition for their continued support.
Mosola was about to become the EFF’s Mr 10%.
Mosola appointed GladAfrica in November 2017 to act as the City of Tshwane’s outsourced Project Management unit – PMU for short.
The Sunday Times has reported on the GladAfrica deal for 3 Sundays in August 2018 and it is a real trough eating exercise.
The long suffering City of Tshwane ratepayers gets fleeced in 2 different ways.
First GladAfrica takes a 10% commission of each project it manages for the City which will amount to R1, 2 billion out of a total infrastructure budget of R12 billion.
GladAfrica also charges the city between R2,000 and R4,000 an hour for contracting skilled professionals such as engineers, project managers, accountants and legal experts.
In 2009, the Limpopo Department of Road and Transport set up a Programme Management Unit (PMU) to take over many of the department’s functions in planning, contracting for and overseeing road works.
In a twist at odds with Malema’s stance on nationalisation, it outsourced the running of the unit to On-Point Engineers for three years at a fee of R52 million.
The Ratanang Family Trust, founded by Malema, held shares in On-Point Engineering.
Malema benefitted through On-Point Engineers through regular dividend payments that he received from On-Point Engineers.
Thuli Madonsela found that On-Point paid R2.17 Million through R100,000-a-month dividends into Malema’s Ratanang Family Trust over 17 months.
It is not far fetched to imagine that Mosola was the EFF’s trojan horse to kick back tender money to the EFF. To this day no proper investigation into this possibility was done.
If you take the circumstantial evidence, then its clear that the EFF protected Mosola all the way.
The EFF brought a MONC – Motion of No Confidence in Solly Msimanga in late August 2018 which was defeated on technical grounds.
This after Msimanga announced an investigation into the GladAfrica tender and wanted to suspend Mosola.
So the EFF was protecting Mosola, that was clear.
After the EFF’s theatrical performance in late August in the Tshwane council chambers – their MONC which was not really designed to succeed – mayor Msimanga said he will reach out to the EFF and talk with them.
And low and behold Mosola was not suspended and remained in his office even whilst the investigation over the GladAfrica matter was conducted by his deputy.
The Auditor General in January 2019 found that the Glad Africa tender was irregular. By then the ratepayers of Tshwane had already spent R500 million for middleman consultancy services.
It was announced 2 days ago by the new DA mayor Stevens Mokgalapa that the GladAfrica tender was cancelled.
The ANC also claimed that another R250 million was reserved and set aside as a golden handshake to GladAfrica, bringing the total to R750 million spent on GladAfrica – and for what you might ask? Take note this is 3 times what Nkandla cost.
The EFF who so vociferously defended Mosola before was suspiciously quiet about the cancellation of the GladAfrica tender, leading me to believe they already got their cut.
It was also reported by the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism last year that a company called Afrirent scored a R1, 26 billion tender from the City of Johannesburg for fleet management services.
Financial records show that as the rain was about to fall for Afrirent, it transferred R500 000 in two tranches to a company fronted by Julius Malema’s cousin but used as a “slush fund” for the EFF and Malema.
Conclusion: It was comprehensively proven that a City of Johannesburg tender, where the DA is ultimately in charge , gave the EFF and Malema a R500 000 windfall.
How much did they get from GladAfrica?
