FINGERED

ANC at heart of Mandela funeral scandal.

EVIDENCE is mounting against the ruling party and its regional boss in the Buffalo City Metro, Pumlani Mkolo, after it emerged this week that it had lots to answer in the ongoing Mandela funeral millions scandal.

Mkolo refused to discuss this with the Dispatch yesterday.

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane accused the NPA of mischief by dragging the ANC’s name in the scandal. This is the clearest indication to date that the ANC may have benefited or was part of a complicated scheme to fleece the former state president’s funeral budget.

This revelation came on Wednesday – the same day the NPA won a preservation order in respect of the accounts that received payments from an amount of R5.985million paid from BCM to Victory Ticket CC.

Sources close to the developments have told the Dispatch that Mkolo approached a senior official in the supply chain management unit to hand over three quotations, including one from Sokwali’s Victory Ticket.

But the official refused to accept the quotations from an “outsider”, saying his staff were competent enough to source the quotes.

The senior administrator, whose name is known to the Dispatch, immediately went on leave leaving fairly junior officials to handle the Mandela memorial tender. Mabuyane distanced the party from the allegations. “We have said this before – everything to do with this issue must be directed to the Memorial tender.

Mabuyane distanced  the party from the allegations, "We have said this before, everything to do with this issue must be directed to the