Cape Town to write off the R140,000 spent on Patricia de Lille’s security upgrade
A task team says the money spent should be ‘ratified as irrecoverable as goods were received and services rendered and no one person could be assigned blame’
Money irregularly spent on security upgrades at Patricia de Lille’s home is set to be written off by the City of Cape Town. A report to Thursday’s council meeting says R140‚140 spent on Trellidor security gates at the mayor’s home in Pinelands should be “ratified as irrecoverable as the goods were received and services rendered and no one person could be assigned blame as there were many role players”. The security gates were installed after De Lille made alterations to her home in 2017. The auditor-general said in June that the expenditure was irregular because it was incurred without an updated threat-and-risk analysis by the police. He said the council had broken municipal supply chain management regulations and failed to comply with the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act. The municipal public accounts committee set up a task team to investigate the security gate affair. It found there was no negligence and no one had been enriched as a result of the irregular expenditure....
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