Tshwane municipal manager Johan Mettler has instructed the council's legal services to investigate mayor Dr Murunwa Makwarela's rehabilitation certificate.
This comes after questions were raised about the authenticity of the court rehabilitation order submitted by Makwarela.
He submitted the letter to the office of the city manager on Thursday in a bid to cling on to his mayoral seat after reports of an unresolved insolvency case dating back to 2016."The city manager, Johann Mettler, has requested legal services to investigate certain aspects around the rehabilitation notice that was presented to him by councillor Murunwa Makwarela yesterday.
By law, an individual who has been declared insolvent cannot hold public office, which formed the basis for Mettler to disqualify Makwarela as a councillor. TimesLIVE reported that lgrammatical flaws, structural discrepancies and is cited to have come from the"North Court of South Africa Gauteng Division Pretoria" instead of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria.
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