By Zuko Komisa
Mpho Phalatse, a former mayor of Johannesburg, has filed a criminal complaint against a metro-owned real estate company on Wednesday.
She charges the Joburg Property Company (JPC) with corruption and fraud.
Phalatse asserted that money was diverted to a contractor connected to the African National Congress and then used to pay council members to vote out the Democratic Alliance-led coalition in a speech she delivered outside the Hillbrow Police Station where she had filed the charge.
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Phalatse claimed that a former member of the mayoral committee who received a tip from a whistleblower alerted her of the corruption charges.
I have just arrived at the Hillbrow Police Station to lay criminal charges against the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC), that appears to have engaged in an act of fraud or corruption involving millions of taxpayers’ money siphoned off to a company linked to the ANC. pic.twitter.com/sSUec0lx0Z
— Executive Mayor Mpho Phalatse (@mphophalatse1) October 12, 2022
We were reliably informed that part of this R27-million would be used to destabilise the coalition government of which I was the Executive Mayor, by funding the payment of bribes to Councillors in order to entice them to vote against our government.
— Executive Mayor Mpho Phalatse (@mphophalatse1) October 12, 2022



