1008640867__20260526__0 EThekwini City Manager Musa Mbhele discusses controversial payment delays to service providers and integrity allegations during a public forum in Hillcrest.
eThekwini City Manager Musa Mbhele took centre stage at Xubera’s Moments of Truth discussion in Hillcrest over the weekend, addressing a range of pressing concerns, including the municipality's controversial payment delays to service providers.
The event was attended by ratepayers and prominent business figures, including Siyabonga Xulu, who publicly claimed that the city owed him R44 million for security services rendered.
Xulu's allegations became a significant point of contention during the event, and Mbhele detailed the complicated legal and financial dispute surrounding the matter, which had reportedly been a topic of controversy since he assumed the city manager role in July 2021.
The businessman lodged an urgent High Court application in which he claimed that he rendered protection services to the municipality from October 2019 to September 2020 and was owed R41.7 million for work allegedly done during that period.
