Mafia Makhubo Profiting from Johannesburg Residents While HAWKS and NPA Know Nothing
25 November 2020
Johannesburg Mayor, Geoff Makhubo, has today been fingered by testimony given by an expert forensic investigator to the State Capture Commission in relation to alleged corruption between the City of Johannesburg and EOH.
During my Mayoralty in the City of Johannesburg, the multi-party coalition initiated a forensic investigation into the contract with EOH as the City’s IT provider. It was clear to us that this relationship contained irregularities, including alleged over-billing of the City. Bizarrely when we investigated this matter, nearly all IT contracts appear to have been signed by the COO of the City when the City Manager was away.
The expert forensic investigator confirmed the identification of correspondence between Geoff Makhubo and EOH, which included payments made to Molelwane Consulting, a company wholly owned by Makhubo and his mother. Molelwane Consulting is already notorious for its alleged profiting to the tune of R30 million for services rendered to Regiments Capital. These services were to allegedly manage the relationship for Regiments Capital with the City of Johannesburg, while Makhubo served as the MMC of Finance prior to 2016.
Payments made by EOH subsidiaries to Molelwane between 2012 and 2014, totalled millions of Rand. Emails recovered reveal Makhubo further soliciting donations for the ANC in Johannesburg from EOH subsidiaries.