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Madibeng municipal officials pay for groceries, DStv and clothing accounts with taxpayers' money

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Services in Madibeng have all but collapsed while officials squander millions on forensic reports, groceries, DStv and clothing accounts
Services in Madibeng have all but collapsed while officials squander millions on forensic reports, groceries, DStv and clothing accounts
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The brazen fraud, theft, corruption and irregularities in the North West’s Madibeng Local Municipality have left it almost on its knees.

Apart from owing Eskom and the City of Tshwane millions of rands in debt, since 2018 the municipality has spent more than R7 million on forensic investigations to uncover widespread corruption, fraud and irregular expenditure.

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