The Msunduzi Municipality struggles to discipline offending workers, as officials are reportedly facing death threats.
Death threats against Msunduzi Municipality officials conducting disciplinary actions have led to the council incurring millions of rand of wasteful expenditure, as accused employees ended up on years of paid suspension without their cases being finalised.
This was revealed when the financially battling municipality appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Parliament on Wednesday.
Although the city's Chief Financial Officer Nelisiwe Ngcobo did not give details of the pending cases and accused employees, the municipality’s 2024/25 Annual Report, released early this year, indicated that there were 12 such cases opened between 2022 and 2025.
The report stated that the pending cases involved fraud, corruption, murder, theft, sexual harassment and bringing the municipality into disrepute.
