Lekwa Municipal Manager, Malose Lamola says the municipality discovered suspicious financial activities in its account.

Lamola says the alleged fraud has been taking place for at least five years. He says the officials will be suspended soon.

“We launched a mini-investigation internally to try and find out what is happening here and on the basis of that, we quantified an amount of about R100 000 ($5 541) was disappearing, per week. Our fuel account has dropped from around R140 000 ($7 758) a week to about R110 0000 ($6 096) a week. If you do some basic calculations, you should come out to about R6 million rand in a year. So that is the quantum that we are talking about. But we still do not know how far back this might have started,” Lamola said.

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