Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has referred himself to the Johannesburg’s council’s ethics committee.In a letter Mashaba wrote to council speaker Vasco da Gama on Tuesday, he requested that the ethics committee in council investigate his use of a former business associate who still works for Lephatsi Financial Services, owned by his wife Connie, to advise the city on the insourcing of its security workers. Mashaba said in a statement that given the allegations against him, he had taken this "extraordinary measure". "Whilst I believe I have responded to the matter sufficiently, I have committed to run the City of Johannesburg whilst holding myself to the highest ethical standards. It is time that citizens believe in their political leadership, and this can only happen when we set the bar higher," Mashaba said. On Monday the Sowetan newspaper reported that Mashaba had appointed Akhter Deshmukh, a financial director of Lephatsi Financial Services, which is owned by his wife, Connie,...
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