Suspended City of Tshwane Chief Financial Officer(CFO) Gareth Mnisi must be feeling the heat as he is expected to appear again at the Madlanga Commission to co continue with his testimony.
Mnisi who vehemently denied that he helped secure a municipal contract for a colleague’s relative is expected to appear today (Monday) while his friend and embattled and suspended Sergeant Fannie Nkosi will be appearing at the Boksburg Magistrate court.
Mnisi testified before the commission on Friday, where questions were raised about a security tender awarded to a company called Ngaphesheya, owned by the brother of Nkosi.
The company has reportedly received close to R3 million from the municipality.
At the centre of the concern are WhatsApp messages presented as evidence, showing Mnisi requesting the company’s vendor registration number.
But Mnisi said that the request is being misinterpreted.
He told the commission that the City of Tshwane was, at the time, transitioning to a new digital supply chain system, a process that caused widespread technical problems for suppliers.
According to Mnisi, many businesses struggled with registration and accessing the system, leading to multiple complaints being escalated to senior officials.
He maintained that his request for the vendor number was simply to check whether the company’s details had been correctly captured during the system migration, not to influence or assist in securing a tender.
Mnisi also confirmed that he does know Nkosi, but insisted that this relationship had no bearing on procurement decisions but was based on their love for guns and motorbikes.
The commission is continuing to examine the evidence as part of its broader investigation into how tenders were handled within the municipality that saw it lose close to R3 Billion.
At this stage, no findings have been made against Mnisi in relation to this specific allegation.