Tshwane ActionSA councilor says he was offered R1 million to vote for Murunwa Makwarela
Former Tshwane MMC and ActionSA councillor, Kgosietsile Kgosiemang, said that he was offered a year’s worth of his salary for his vote in the city’s mayoral election.
Kgosiemang has opened a case of attempted bribery at the Olievenhoutbosch police station in Centurion against a Tshwane PR councillor from the Defenders of the People (DOP) party.
The ActionSA councillor said that he was asked to vote for Dr Murunwa Makwarela for mayor against his party’s choice, Cilliers Brink.
Murunwa eventually won the election, with eight councillors betraying the Democratic Alliance (DA)-led coalition and voting for him.
ActionSA’s Kgosiemang said that he was offered a year’s worth of the salary he used to make as an MMC for housing and human settlements.
He said that this was well over R1 million, however, he rejected the offer and told them he would be toeing the party line.
In his affidavit, he said that he was approached last month at a local shisanyama by two men, one of them being a serving PR councillor for the DOP in the Tshwane municipality.
“At first I thought they were bluffing and that’s when they took a phone and called a councillor and said: ‘We’ve briefed the councillor, the councillor doesn’t believe it, can you please confirm?’ And the councillor on the other side confirmed.”
The publication has reached out to the DOP councillor in question for a response.
-EWN
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