Tshwane’s ActionSA puppet mayor Nasiphi Moya is happy to impose high bills on the City’s residents, but she allows her ANC deputy to get away with not paying his bills.
In yesterday’s meeting of the Tshwane municipal council, I confronted Mayor Moya about the R23 million owed to the City on a property leased by Mzansi Resorts, a company that belongs to her ANC deputy mayor Eugene Bonzo Modise.
Moya promptly left the council chamber during my speech, only returning when the meeting has moved on to another item. She also refuses to answer media queries on the issue.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Tshwane will now submit a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) request, to determine whether there is a block on Modise’s account. If the Mayor refuses to answer in Council, we will use the law to force an answer out of her.
This information will be hand delivered to the Auditor General, as justice must be served. Politicians in Tshwane cannot be held to a different standard than those who they serve.
Tshwane is owed R23 million in arrear property rates and water tariffs on a property that use to house the old Morula Sun and that belongs to the North West Housing Corporation.
The property is leased by Mzansi Resorts, which is owned by ANC Deputy Mayor and Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance, Eugene ‘Bonzo’ Modise.
Mayor Moya has eagerly joined Tshwane ya Tima teams to cut off power to users who do not pay their municipal bills. But she has not been seen anywhere near Mzansi Resorts.
Overseeing the implementation of a municipality’s credit control policy is one of the core functions of an Executive Mayor, but it is clear that Mayor Moya is the political junior in her own government.
The DA will not rest until every rand of the arrears owed to the City by Modise and his company is paid. ANC cadres should not be exempt from paying their municipal bills.