Nelson Mandela Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip, said he would ensure that corruption is dealt with regardless of the outcome of the pending motion of no confidence against him.
Trollip tabled the report by auditing firm, PWC, at Wednesday's Mayoral Committee meeting, promising that charges would be formulated by 21 March against those implicated in the report.
He said the report will also be tabled at a Council meeting before the end of the month adding that the report had been handed over to a firm of attorneys to action the charges.
Trollip said he received the PWC report on 20 December 2017 and that it was also handed to the Municipal Public Accounts Committee before he tabled it at Wednesday's mayoral committee meeting.
He said the report dealt with the "irregular appointment of a company called Milongani Eco Consulting" based in Limpopo, which he said had invoiced the Municipality for millions of rands within two days of being appointed.
Trollip said every signature on every document is different adding that "it's been forged."
"The company never did any work for the Municipality. It outsourced every bit of work that it did for the Municipality. The company doing the work got paid, but it had to pay a premium of 15% to Milongani. So, they were raking off this money. There were also allegations of waste diversion project where they were paid R18m. Only R1.3m is accounted for actual salaries for people working on that project. The rest of it is completely unaccounted for. The file is thick, there are many, many allegations," he said.
Trollip said that the PWC report had been given to a firm of attorneys, Rushmere Noach, who will now formulate charges and "that by 21 March the people that have to be charged for irregularities, corruption and fraud are going to be charged."
"Regardless of what happens to this coalition government, I want to make sure that every single charge against every single company, whether its City of Champions, whether its Mohlaleng, whether its crooked rental deals, crooked lease deals, whether its for Milongani Eco Consulting, that all of those people who need to be investigated, who need to be prosecuted will be prosecuted regardless of who is in government."
"We made a commitment that we are going to stop corruption in this City and some people think that if we get rid of these guys these charges will disappear. They won't disappear. Once a charge is laid with our criminal justice system it continues regardless of who is in government. We've seen that happen at Eskom, we've seen it happen with Brian Molefe, we're seeing it unfolding now with the former President and his son and the Guptas."
"It doesn't matter how long it takes, we will not countenance corruption in this City and I'm making sure that all our work is done before any motion of no confidence is tabled in this Municipality to show the people of this city that when we said we would stop corruption we meant it," Trollip said.
He also said that report on the squandering of R2.5bn on the Integrated Public Transport System, IPTS, completed by another auditing firm, Deloitte, had also been sent to Luthuli House and Florence Matomela House, the ANC's regional headquarters in Nelson Mandela.
