The municipality denies it had a deal in place to pay the Gift of the Givers for the work it did.
Makhanda municipal manager, Moppo Mene said,"their coming into town was to assist the municipality, not to be paid."They came in to offer their generosity to the municipality. What happened is that they moved further to do boreholes something which we also had to do as the municipality."
The municipality says it will now hire local companies to connect the boreholes that Gift of the Givers drilled.The dispute has raised a red flag among accountability monitoring experts.
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