Durban mayor Zandile Gumede is at the heart of a damning internal council investigation into how the city’s police wasted R4m in hiring more than 50 top-end vehicles. Of the fleet‚ eight cars — including a Toyota Fortuner and a BMW 320 for use as escort vehicles — were "allocated" for her protection while she was the ANC’s mayoral candidate ahead of the August 2016 local government elections. At the time‚ Gumede sat on the powerful decision-making executive committee and was chairwoman of the health‚ safety and social services committee — meaning that the Metro Police often fell under her ambit. She was also the ANC’s eThekwini regional chair. The report‚ which was leaked to TMG Digital and which slates officials and slams them for using Metro Police vehicles for the security of unnamed municipal office-bearers‚ it found that the cars were "never used for the mayor’s protection". However‚ Zwakele Mncwango‚ the leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal and in the eThekwini caucus‚ was adaman...
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