Where is Zandile Gumede?
12 December 2019
At today’s final eThekwini Council meeting for 2019, former Mayor Zandile Gumede, who remains an ordinary member of the Council, is again absent.
Gumede has not attended a meeting of Council since the beginning of September, when she arrived late to elect her successor, Mxolisi Kaunda.
Our research also indicates that Gumede is not a member of any Council committee, and is such is not attending any other committee meetings. She continues to earn a salary from the municipal coffers despite not doing any work as a Councillor and facing serious criminal charges.
Two of the four ANC Councillors arrested yesterday- AN Shabalala and NE Mthembu- also submitted leave under the guise of ‘personal commitments’. The other two- GT De Lange and MS Nyawose- did not submitted any leave. All four are out on bail for fraud, allegedly related to the same DSW matter as Gumede.