Two senior Theewaterskloof Municipality officials are headed to RWC final, but questions have been raised about funding and the real reason behind the trip.
Illustrative image: Theewaterskloof Municipality speaker Derick Appel and Theewaterskloof Municipality Deputy Mayor John Michels
“The delegation kindly request a meeting and pay a courtesy visit to the Embassy in the United Kingdom and France and meet with the relevant officials to discuss trade and investment.” “If the official visits are an excuse to watch the Rugby World Cup, it is a complete disgrace that executives from a municipality like Theewaterskloof, find it appropriate to go watch rugby matches and meet with a rugby club, all while
to Geldenhuys for comment. However, in response to a follow-up request for comment, he later replied: “My trip is paid by myself!”simply with a thumbs-up emoji. However, in a post on a Grabouw community news group on Facebook, the deputy mayor maintained that Theewaterskloof did not pay for his trip – but he does not say who did.
“There was no council decision about this and the municipality is not paying for it. What I am trying to tell you is that I do not know whether there’s an entity that pays for it. I do not know that. All there is that I know is that we did not make the arrangements and we’re not paying for it,” he said.
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