Mayor’s luxury R700K car tops the agenda of poor municipality
13 September 2016
The DA can today reveal that the Mayor of the ANC-led Mkhambathini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, Mr Eric Ngcongo, is set to buy a new expensive mayoral car using public money.
This follows a council meeting this week, where the matter was placed at the top of the agenda – ahead of pressing issues relating to service delivery, corruption and job creation.
The new car is set to cost the public over R700 000, and its purchase relates to the Mayor’s unwillingness to use his predecessor’s vehicle, a 2011 Mercedes. It is still not clear what luxury vehicle the Mayor will buy with this budget.
This blatant disregard for the people, in a poor municipality grappling with high unemployment and deteriorating service delivery, deserves to be condemned in the strongest terms possible.