These matters are raised in a report on the fourth quarter of 2017/2018 which ended in June this year. The report was tabled at the meeting of the city’s executive committee on Tuesday.
Regarding issues at the legal unit, the committee points out that over the past three years there had been three different heads of the unit, and asks the City’s leadership to establish the root cause of this.
The last head of the unit, Gideon Phungula, was fired earlier this month just four months after he was appointed to the position.
His axing came after he was found guilty by an internal disciplinary hearing which probed charges of misconduct against him including that he had tried to influence the outcome of a disciplinary hearing against one official and that he had made racist remarks against Indians, including his then colleagues at the municipality.
“For this unit to be effective there has to be continuity at the top because most of the City’s litigation cases have…
