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Johannesburg - Mafikeng's high court sheriff has attached the assets of the North West's Ngaka Modiri Molema municipality after a former municipal manager took it to court, the New Age newspaper reports on Wednesday.
On Tuesday morning office equipment, fire engines, trucks and caravans were attached, crippling the community services directorate.
According to one unnamed official, former municipal manager Tshepiso Ramphele took the municipality to court after it failed to pay money it owed him.
"This is Tshepiso fighting the municipality. I'm told the institution owes him money amounting to R5m," she was quoted as saying.
Ramphele apparently left the municipality in 2008 after a spat with its former mayor Themba Gwabeni.
Another municipal worker told the New Age: "We are responsible for water supply, sanitation, roads and refuse, issues affecting people. But now all the trucks are attached. The fire engines can no longer be used either and caravans that sheltered people when they sleep over have also been taken by the sheriff."
On Tuesday morning office equipment, fire engines, trucks and caravans were attached, crippling the community services directorate.
According to one unnamed official, former municipal manager Tshepiso Ramphele took the municipality to court after it failed to pay money it owed him.
"This is Tshepiso fighting the municipality. I'm told the institution owes him money amounting to R5m," she was quoted as saying.
Ramphele apparently left the municipality in 2008 after a spat with its former mayor Themba Gwabeni.
Another municipal worker told the New Age: "We are responsible for water supply, sanitation, roads and refuse, issues affecting people. But now all the trucks are attached. The fire engines can no longer be used either and caravans that sheltered people when they sleep over have also been taken by the sheriff."
