Chairperson, on behalf of the DA I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the MEC for local government and traditional affairs, Mr M Qoboshiyane, requested a forensic audit into alleged irregularities at Kouga municipality in February 2011;
2) further notes that the Gobodo forensic auditors, who were mandated to undertake the investigation, informed the DA caucus that the report was to be tabled by 25 March 2011;
3) also notes that the investigation commissioned by the previous MEC, Mr Qobana, into the alleged fraudulent Jeffrey's Bay Golf Course, the Kouga valuation tender scandal and other matters - referring to the Auditor General's special reports 1, 2, 3 and 4 - and the Special Investigating Unit, was stopped at the final stages because of the lack of capacity and funding by the relevant department in Bhisho;
4) notes that at a special council meeting held on 4 October 2011 a resolution was passed that a subcommittee of councillors would study legal action options against some of the major transgressors in the Kouga administration; and
5) calls on the Minister for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to please make available the above reports within the next week to empower the council's subcommittee to implement the council resolution of 4 October.