Bitou Implementation Plan
Dear MEC Bredell, There has been no further communication from yourself nor Mr. Paulse since our 3 May letter, requesting your intervention as offered in your 9 October 2020 letter. We ask you again to provide any documentation you hold regarding Bitou’s intentions to act on the 72 disciplinary and criminal charges as recommended in […]
Payment Of Scarce Skills Allowance To Senior Managers In Bitou Municipality
7 October 2020 Department of Local Government Western Cape Dear MEC Bredell The Plettenberg Bay Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association (‘the PBRRA’) is the applicant in proceedings, brought on behalf of its constituency, for recovery of amounts paid to senior officials in the Bitou Municipality in excess of the maximum levels prescribed by regulation. You are cited […]
MEC Bredell kept us, all of us, in the dark for nearly a year.
Dear Members, MEC Bredell kept us, all of us, in the dark for nearly a year. Under sustained pressure from us, he eventually buckled, and has revealed the forensic report his Department commissioned. Now there is much fluttering in the dovecots. Just a quick scan of the report and a superficial consideration of the wider implications […]
Plett RatePayers Association request for Bitou Forensic Report
30 January 2020 Premier Alan Winde Western Cape Dear Premier On record you have committed yourself and the DA to fight corruption. This is an objective with which we, the Plettenberg Bay Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association, identify. You know that, in an effort to promote this aim, we have repeatedly asked Minister Bredell to provide […]
Request confirmation date to receive forensic report
11 January 2020 MEC Bredell Western Cape Department of Local Government Dear Sir We refer to our letters of 20 and 22 December 2019 in which we have pressed for a copy of the forensic report into crime and corruption in our Municipality. The letters, you will recall, explain why we believe that we are […]