Tag Archives: Manon McDonald

The DA’s favouritism towards Manon McDonald

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Knysna’s Manager Electrical Department Manon McDonald was allegedly involved in graft and tender irregularities. This is a further example of Democratic Alliance municipalities protecting their own instead of the Public.   In 2014, McDonald secured Nissan vehicles for the traffic department. The tender wasn’t awarded to the winning bidder. Round the same time, her and her husband, Johan, were alleged to be driving new Nissan vehicles too. I had two acquaintances of theirs contact me to say that they’d personally scored from the deal, one even saying they’d received a … Read the full article…

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The Rotten Heart of Knysna in Council Today

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Attention Knysna Councillors! Will you, in the Special Council Meeting today, serve the Public or further legitimise the rotten heart of the Knysna Municipality? Acting Municipal Manager Johnny Douglas requests you ignore that Manon McDonald, ex-Manager Electrical Department, was involved in the process that granted R1.3-million in tenders to Jam Electrical, a company whose only member is her husband. Absurdly, Douglas accepts the investigation team’s advice that the related disciplinary hearing against previous Municipal Manager Grant Easton suffices as sufficient warning to staff to obey tender regulations. Easton quit, unpunished. … Read the full article…

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Worker Suspended After Saving Town R40-million

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This is the story of politics, power, wasted public monies and a municipal employee called Avitha Sunkar. It is also about Knysna, a South African town with an enormous question mark on it. Sunkar is the Manager of the Budget Office for Knysna Municipality. She is an exception in a local government pirate ship that has found managers and politicians departing like rats from fire. A CORRUPT TOWN Despite major negative findings by the Auditor General, Knysna got a clean audit. Municipal Manager Grant Easton and then-Mayor Georlene Wolmarans told … Read the full article…

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Revealed: Charge Sheet Against Knysna Municipal Manager Grant Easton

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This article reveals the underhanded conduct of the Democratic Alliance and that they’re prepared to play with the future of a whole town. This is clearly demonstrated through the disciplinary charge sheet against Knysna’s Municipal Manager, Grant Easton. The charges have not been made public until now. In fact, for 9 days, the Municipality’s Legal Department and Municipal Manager Johnny Douglas have failed to acknowledge my PAIA request for the full details of the disciplinary hearing. I mysteriously discovered part of the required information in an envelope at my home … Read the full article…

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DA-supporting cyberstalkers tried to kill my FB

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I’m back after more dirty political tricks… I’m back! Those UnDemocratic Alliance supporting cyberstalkers at the anonymously run (Not) Protecting Brand Knysna seem to have reported my personal profile as a fake identity. They’ve also reported many of my posts as defamatory etc. (no matter the topic). Of course, I’m Mike Hampton but Facebook seems to practice a guilty until proven innocent policy which meant that my personal profile was taken offline. That automatically deleted the Love Knysna Facebook page. Thankfully, Facebook was responsive within 24hrs – kudos. Now that … Read the full article…

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Call For Investigation into Knysna’s Electrical Department

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COPE Councillor Elrick van Aswegen’s questions dominated the Section 80 Community Meeting held last Tuesday. In particular, he called for an investigation into the Electrical Department previously run by Manon McDonald but also spoke widely of rot in the Knysna Municipality. The spark was the topic of the construction of lights at the Loerie Park Tennis Courts. Van Aswegen queried how Tuiniqua Consulting engineers got involved, how many projects they were involved in, and if supply chain management had been followed. He stated that he believed not. “There are departments … Read the full article…

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