Water World And Court Crescent Tender Probe Clears Metro Officials Suspected Of Wrongdoing
By The Coastal Reporter · KuGompo City
10 September 2026 · 1 min read
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A top-secret disciplinary board report tabled to the Buffalo City Metro council says two of its development agency officials were found not guilty of collusion, maladministration or financial misconduct in a probe into tender processes linked to two flagship projects.
The report has cleared the two officials, who were once accused of misconduct, following an internal probe into their involvement in tender processes linked to the Water World and Court Crescent parks projects.
The disciplinary board report, marked as top secret and strictly confidential, which was discussed behind closed doors at a recent council meeting at the East London City Hall in KuGompo City, says the investigation did not establish grounds for disciplinary action against two officials -- listed in the report only as A Ntshokoma and Z Qomfo.
The findings are likely to draw attention inside the municipality because councillors had referred allegations of maladministration, collusion and fruitless and wasteful expenditure to the board for further investigation. The report says the probe only looked at the role played by the two as they were the only officials still working at Buffalo City Municipality Development Agency (BMCDA).
The report records no prima facie evidence of financial misconduct and says there was no evidence of collusion, maladministration, personal benefit or financial misconduct. It also says Qomfo’s role as secretariat on the bid adjudication committee was administrative and that no exceptions were identified in her conduct.
But the report does not give the pair a clean bill of conduct on every issue. It notes two procedural irregularities: an undocumented chairperson substitution on Bid 12 of 2022, and concurrent multi-committee participation in 2021/22 and 2023/24, which it says raised a possible conflict-of-interest concern under supply chain management policy.
For Ntshokoma, the report says the bid committee documentation reviewed showed no wrongdoing in earlier processes linked to Court Crescent and Water World, including a 2018 construction management services bid, a 2019 beachfront precinct proposal and a 2020 request for expressions of interest for SMME appointments.
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, contacted for comment, would not be drawn into commenting the report. Spokesperson Luzuko Buku said: "This was a confidential report." BCMDA, Ntshokoma and Qomfo could not be reached for comment..
