Tender-rigging and mismanagement of ratepayers’ money running into hundreds of millions of rand in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality in Vryburg. 

North West – The Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality has spent more than R100 million on consultants but failed to get value for money.

One of them was the former chief financial officer of the municipality, David Thornhill.

Thornhill was paid R39 000 for assisting the current chief financial officer Segomotso Phatudi to compile the annual financial statement a few days before the auditor-general’s office arrived in August last year to conduct the audit.

At the time, Thornhill was employed as a chief financial officer at Naledi Local Municipality in Vryburg. Thornhill is a former chief financial officer of the district.

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