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Manager probed over virus budget

The Mpumalanga cooperative governance and traditional affairs department will investigate how a municipal manager in a rural Mpumalanga municipality allegedly appointed himself to be the sole administrator of a R27.3 million Covid-19 coronavirus budget.

MEC Mandla Msibi (pictured) said that he was not aware that Nkomazi local municipality manager Daniel Ngwenya had allegedly been spending the Covid-19 budget without following any procurement processes and regulations.

Msibi promised that his department

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