The Nelson Mandela Bay Council met behind closed doors on Thursday afternoon to discuss the national treasury's report on large-scale corruption in the Metro.
Executive mayor, Danny Jordaan, told a full Council meeting on Wednesday that their clean-up campaign was at an advanced stage.
The Herald reports that City Manager, Mpilo Mbambisa's days are numbered, after the Council started a process which would decide his fate by next week.
This, after Coucillors of all parties expressed frustration by, what they called, his poor leadership and dereliction of duty, which had resulted in officials doing as they please.
According to the report, Jordaan indicated that deputy-mayor, Bicks Ndoni had already spoken to Mbambisa about 17 charges against him, and that Mbambisa indicated that he would be willing to enter into a settlement to buy him out of his contract.
Should he be paid out, he would be the fourth city manager to receive a golden handshake.
Meanwhile, the newspaper reports that the Metro's Director of Communications, Roland Williams is facing suspension because of a string of allegations, including a communications contract awarded last year to a Western Cape printing company to print the municipality's Ubuntu magazine, which was a project of Williams' department.
Accoring to the report, Williams would also have to answer questions about a three-year communications contract with a media company, and the sub-letting of office space to the company, as well as allegations of inflating invoices, amongst others.
The Herald quoted Williams as saying that none of the allegations related to the National Treasury investigation into the Integrated Public Transport System.
