The corruption charges against eight people, including three former DA councillors who had allegedly taken bribes to oust their party’s Nelson Mandela Bay mayor, seem to confirm dirty tricks.
Former Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip, now the Eastern Cape chairperson of ActionSA, believes the Hawks have uncovered just the tip of the iceberg of corruption in the metro.
This week, Trollip said the arrests were very welcome, but they probably revealed just the tip of the iceberg of what was happening in the Nelson Mandela Bay council.“I believe fully that the charges and allegations [as set out in the charge sheet before the court] are true. He recounted how, during a period in 2018 when there was political upheaval in the council, he had spent hours talking to the three councillors, Neville Higgins, Victor Manyathi and Trevor Louw. “We had a stable four-party government at the time. It was a majority coalition,” he explained.In 2018, Trollip was the DA’s executive mayor in Nelson Mandela Bay. That was until the DA speaker, Jonathan Lawack, was voted out of office in August that year after weeks of political drama.
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