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The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s disciplinary board has raised a red flag on how a contract for a company to act as a middleman between SMMEs and the metro went up from R17m to R51m — calling for the tender to be probed further.
After cancelling the normal tender process, economic development executive director and current acting city manager Anele Qaba has been accused of signing a deviation the very next day that ultimately led to a company being handpicked as a middleman between the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and SMMEs.