City of Tshwane deputy mayor and MMC for finance Eugen Modise photo Dimakatso Modipa
Current City of Tshwane Deputy Mayor Eugene Modise has refuted an assertion by former Mayor Cilliers Brink suggesting that he (Modise) owes the City of Tshwane R23 million for leasing property that used to belong to Morula Sun consortium, wherein Modise now operates his business known as Mzansi Resorts.
Ald Cilliers Brink DA Tshwane Caucus Leader and DA Tshwane mayoral candidate photo by Dimakatso Modipa
In a media statement submitted to Tshwane Talks on Wednesday, former Mayor Cilliers Brink wrote the following:
“We are today releasing a copy of a municipal bill which shows just how little Modise and his company Mzansi Resorts pay the North West government to lease the said premises.”
Brink insists that the City of Tshwane has inexplicably suspended credit control measures against Modise’s company Mzansi Resorts.
“When we broke this news, Mayor Nasiphi Moya did nothing; she was sitting on her own debt to the City of Tshwane,” wrote Brink.
“The R23 million bill on Mzansi Resorts has still not been paid yet, credit control has not been implemented,” lamented Brink.
He pointed out that Mayor Moya often leads credit control teams to cut off power supplies to schools, businesses and recently to the Tshwane University of Technology.
“It is time the Mayor stopped fronting for the ANC and end the double standards she is using regarding billing and credit control in Tshwane,” he said.
“Our public challenge to Mayor Moya is for her to lead a Tshwane Ya Tima disconnection team to Mzansi Resorts where she must apply credit control policies that apply to the rest of us here in Tshwane and moreover, if Deputy Mayor Modise can’t get his company to pay what it owes to the City of Tshwane Municipality, then he must be fired from his position as MMC for Finance,” enthused Brink.
In refuting Brink’s assertion, Deputy Mayor Eugene Modise sent the following statement to Tshwane Talks:
“Remember that my accounts with the City of Tshwane are up to date and I don’t owe the City of Tshwane anything.”
Modise said Mzansi Resorts is responsible for electricity, security, gardening which amount to R700 000 a month and that
“Mzansi Resorts can’t pay for someone else’s debt.”
He said he was surprised by the attacks directed at him by former Mayor Cilliers Brink; describing them (the attacks)as a ventilation exercise which comes in the wake of a successful Summit; and that as the City of Tshwane they are presently preoccupied with revitalising the economy of Tshwane and creating the much-needed jobs.
“I am currently consumed with ensuring that City of Tshwane employees get their 3,5% increase and also to reach our 80 000 jobs target,” said Modise.