By: Natasha Archary
ActionSA is relaunching its bid to push for a motion of no confidence (MONC) against City of Joburg mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda.
The party says there’s confirmation of Gwamanda’s fraudulent funeral scheme, proving that the mayor was involved in illegal dealings.
According to ActionSA, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) confirmed that Gwamanda’s funeral scheme, which was first reported on by the Sunday Times, was not registered.
Gwamanda posed as a financial services provider without the required license from the FSCA, and is therefore facing a fraud investigation at the Protea Glen Police Station.
In a statement issued on Monday, 19 June, ActionSA said, it believes Gwamanda failed to explain how he took money from the poorest residents in our city for his own gain.
“A party committed to ethical leadership, refuses to allow Mayor Gwamanda to get away with defrauding our residents and will therefore proceed to hold him accountable by way of a MONC, which the Speaker has since decided not to table at this month’s programming committee.
Our resolve is to proceed with this MONC amid the Speaker’s decision is to clearly show which political parties are complicit in shielding Gwamanda from accountability by having to answer why he illegally took money from the poorest residents of the city, the very people he is supposed to serve.
ActionSA will continue talks with other opposition parties to ensure that the office of the first citizen of this great city is occupied only by men and women of integrity, who will put interests of the residents first.”
The Mayor denied the allegations of fraud against him and said the accusations were merely a political stunt to cause him reputational harm. He shared with media last month that he is ready to answer in a court of law over the allegations of a fraudulent funeral scheme.
“Look the criticism that comes, are ordinarily from those who use processes outside of the prescribed framework that elects leadership.
This applies to local government, provincial or national government, so if in fact it is a pain for me to become Executive Mayor in the City of Johannesburg, I would advise that they do what they do best and approach the courts.
So I am allowed an opportunity to defend myself, because nobody knows who I am, what I bring, and the potential in which the coalition partners have in me.”
Kabelo Gwamanda denied allegations of fraud against him
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