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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Within 24 hours of receipt of a corruption complaint against then eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, the head of the eThekwini investigations unit gave the go-ahead for a probe to be conducted, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban has heard.<\/p>\n

eThekwini’s City Integrity Investigation Unit (CIIU) head, Mbuso Ngcobo, made the startling submission during cross-examination by Gumede’s lawyer, Jay Naidoo, during Gumede’s trial in the High Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Gumede and 21 others are accused in the matter, meaning that Naidoo is the first of many lawyers to cross-examine Ngcobo.<\/p>\n

The 22 accused, including former eThekwini City manager Sipho Nzuza and ANC councillor Mondli Mthembu, face more than 2 000 charges, including conspiracy to commit corruption, corruption, fraud, money laundering, racketeering, contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act and contravention of the Municipal Systems Act. The allegations relate to a R320-million Durban Solid Waste tender.<\/p>\n

During Thursday’s cross-examination, Naidoo began by breaking down the process the CIIU undertakes before contracting forensic auditors for an investigation.<\/p>\n

Ngcobo initially outlined a lengthy process involving a complaint that is received, an assessor’s analysis of the complaint and the submission of a report.<\/p>\n

“That manager will sign the report to their supervisor, who is a senior manager. I’m at the end of the process, where my deputy would sign off on that and send it to me,” Ngcobo told the court.<\/p>\n

Ngcobo explained why so many processes were involved: “Sometimes you find people complain about their partners and such, so we have to test them quite a bit.”<\/p>\n

Naidoo questioned why Gumede’s investigation was signed off within a day and asked whether it was “general policy”.<\/p>\n

Ngcobo responded:<\/p>\n

Ngcobo added that there were capacity issues at the CIIU.<\/p>\n

“We have a total staff complement of 70, including forensic investigators that work on these matters,” he said.<\/p>\n

Naidoo interrogated the document Ngcobo had approved, which led to the initial investigation.<\/p>\n

The witness revealed that one internal report would have been completed by a CIIU manager before he signed off on a forensic investigator. He said this report was not part of the court documents.<\/p>\n

The court adjourned for Ngcobo to contact managers at the CIIU and retrieve the reports so that lawyers could peruse them.<\/p>\n

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