Anger over luxury car hire while assigned vehicles lie idle

JUST less than a month in office, ANC-led KwaDukuza Municipality Mayor Muzi Ngidi and his deputy Njabulo Cele are already at the centre of a controversy involving the alleged splashing out ratepayers’ money on hiring classy vehicles for official duties.The North Coast municipality had official vehicles which had been assigned to their predecessors and which now lay idle.The DA raised the alarm about what it called unacceptable “wastage of public funds” and said the councillors were not informed about the decision to hire vehicles.“The DA has recently written to municipal manager…