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Hy het navraag daaroor gedoen nadat hy, volgens hom, inligting van \u2019n amptenaar oor die betrokke dienskontrak ontvang het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk was nie \u2019n oud-raadslid wat gegrief was toe ek hierdie onwettighede oopgekrap het nie. Ek was \u2019n sittende raadslid en dit was my verantwoordelikheid as \u2019n opposisielid met betrekking tot my oorsigfunksie ingevolge die wet om hulle aanspreeklik te hou en om enige vermeende onwettige aktiwiteite bloot te l\u00ea,\u201d s\u00ea Adams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit volg op \u2019n verslag wat op 30 Maart deur die Openbare Beskermer, adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane, teen die DA-geleide munisipaliteit uitgereik is. In die verslag is bevind dat die munisipaliteit die direkteur van strategiese en korporatiewe dienste, Annalene de Beer, asook die finansi\u00eble hoof, Kevin Carolus, in onderskeidelik 2016 en 2019 onre\u00eblmatig aangestel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams s\u00ea hy het \u2019n gevoel dat sy lewe moontlik in gevaar is weens sy betrokkenheid by die saak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Dit] is \u2019n normale ding, want vir baie jare van my aktiwiteite as \u2019n aktivis wat teen ongeregtighede veg, teen rassisme veg, teen korrupsie veg en teen wanadministrasie veg, het ek gereelde aanmoediging van mense gekry dat ek versigtig moet wees, want dit is normaal in hierdie land dat mense soos ek gejag word, gemerk is en dat ons lewe in gevaar is,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy het geen aktiewe of formele dreigemente ontvang nie, maar volgens Adams het hy inligting ontvang van individue wat bekommerd is oor sy veiligheid, dat hy versigtig moet wees. \u201cEk is \u2019n opgeleide aktivis. Ek sal nooit bang wees vir mense wat korrup is of die land se wette oortree nie. Di\u00e9 aan bewind in Stellenbosch kan nie vertrou word nie. Jy kan enigiets van hulle verwag,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams s\u00ea sy volgende stap is om sy saak van 2018 met die Valke te heropen. \u201cAs Solidariteit die Zondo-verslag kan gebruik om aanklagte teen beweerde korrupte individue aan te meld, hoekom kan ons dit dan nie met hierdie een doen nie?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mettler het in \u2019n verklaring op 31 Maart ges\u00ea die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit roem hom daarop dat hy \u2019n instelling is wat die wet volg. \u201cSoos konsekwent getoon is oor die jare van die bestuur van \u2019n skoon en hoogs doeltreffende regering, het die raad \u2019n benadering van geen verdraagsaamheid nie oor enige vorm van wanadminis\u00adtrasie of onre\u00eblmatigheid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuart Grobbelaar, woordvoerder van Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit, het ges\u00ea hulle is daarop ingestel om \u2019n \u201cskoon, veiliger en groener Vallei van Geleentheid\u201d te skep wat beleggings lok en werk skep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOm ons aan die uitbarstings en samesweringsteorie\u00eb van \u2019n klaarblyklik gegriefde oud-raadslid wat die raad afgedank het, te steur, is nie ons werk nie en ons hou by ons verklaring,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea en bygevoeg dat die munisipaliteit die verslag bestudeer met die oog daarop om dit onder hersiening te neem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns kan dus nie verder kommentaar lewer of \u2019n hofsaak in die openbaar voer nie. 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