The IFP has taken note of the ANC mayor of Greytown, the millionaire businessman Philani Mavundla’s recent statement that he is too rich to draw his mayoral perks and that he will instead forfeit his R700 000 mayoral annual salary to work for free.
Mavundla said he will use this money to upgrade Greytown’s pothole-riddled roads and create jobs.
“While his attitude is commendable, we have to ask the question, how did Greytown’s new Mayor amass his fortune in the first place?,” said Mr Blessed Gwala MPL, Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the IFP in KwaZulu Natal, and Member of the Provincial Legislature. Gwala added, “Mayor Mavundla earns R100’s of millions from government tenders, which is quite a substantial number of deals for any one person. This begs the question: has his fortune been accrued through BEE deals and tenderpreneurship, or were his millions earned through honest, hard work?”
Gwala said Mayor Mavundla must admit what his real motives are. “We have it on good authority that Mayor Mavundla has had numerous provincial government tenders awarded to a number of his companies, some of them include tenders to build and maintain roads and bridges across KwaZulu Natal. So is this a matter of a Mayor being driven by a guilty conscience because it was his responsibility to ensure the upkeep of these roads in the first place? The IFP calls on the Mayor to own up as to the real motives behind this seemingly selfless action,” concluded Gwala.
