News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Shades of Babita - another auditor, another hit and more tender billions

South Africa’s unending war on corruption and lawlessness takes us to Gauteng’s East Rand for this Monday edition of The Lead. This is where two senior Ekurhuleni metro finance auditors were killed in recent years, after examining some rather lucrative council contracts. Mpho Mafole (left) was gunned down in June.

It may mean “place of peace”, but the City of Ekurhuleni has been on edge this year following the murder of its chief auditor, Mpho Mafole.

The soon-to-be married financial investigator was shot and killed not far from his Kempton Park home in late June.

Mafole, a former staffer in the Auditor-General’s office, was only three months on the job in Ekurhuleni.

And he is most certainly not the first municipal auditor to be targeted for combing through the metro’s books, but for what specifically?

Piecing together this complex story is Sikonathi Mantshantsha, our senior investigative journalist joining us in this edition of The Lead.

Later in the show, the DA-led City of Cape Town faces flak for giving a R2-billion tender to a Jozi company.

Finally, while the Mother City shivers, KwaZulu-Natal busts out the aircon for dry conditions and veld fires.

You can send show host Graeme Raubenheimer a short voice note with your questions or thoughts on this episode to our official The Lead WhatsApp line, that’s: +27 72 562 3179. Mail your comments to thelead@24.com. Editions drop on Monday through Thursday at 19:00 on Spotify, Apple and YouTube.

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