{"id":49790,"date":"2023-12-22T06:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/speaker-reageer-op-paarl-post-se-berigte-20231220-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:03:44","slug":"speaker-reageer-op-paarl-post-se-berigte-20231220-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/speaker-reageer-op-paarl-post-se-berigte-20231220-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker reageer op \u2018Paarl Post\u2019 se berigte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><superbyline>In my amptelike hoedanigheid as Speaker en voorsitter van die munisipale raad wil ek konteks verskaf na aanleiding van twee berigte in 7 Desember se <span>Paarl Post<\/span>.<\/superbyline><superbyline><br>\n <span>.<\/span> 1. \u201cBeweerde klagtes teen die uitvoerende burgemeester\u201d<\/superbyline><superbyline>Die hantering van die klagtes word voorgeskryf volgens \u2019n proses soos vervat in die gedragskode vir raadslede. Sodanige proses eindig met \u2019n raadsbesluit nadat \u2019n onafhanklike tugkomitee sy bevinding en aanbeveling voorgel\u00ea het. Die munisipale hantering van die aangeleentheid kom dan tot \u2019n einde en die munisipale raadsbesluit word aan die minister van plaaslike regering deurgee.<\/superbyline><superbyline>Indien enige inligting oor klagtes of getuies vooraf met die raad of die media gedeel word, kan dit die raad in sy besluitneming be\u00efnvloed of tot viktimisering van getuies lei.<\/superbyline><superbyline>Ons het nie hier te doen met \u2019n gebrek aan deursigtigheid nie, maar \u2019n beskerming van die geloofwaardigheid van \u2019n proses sodat \u2019n tegniese verweer nie op die bevinding van die komitee gebring kan word nie. <\/superbyline><superbyline>Aansluitend hierby is die kwessie van die betaling van regskoste. My kantoor beskik oor \u2019n raadsdelegering om regskostes van \u2019n burgemeester goed te keur. Derhalwe moes ek besluit of die klagtes handel oor die amptelike uitvoering (of nie) van verantwoordelikhede van die burgemeester, en indien wel, hoe verreikend gevolge kan wees vir beide die betrokkene en die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit.  Om hierdie rede het ek beslis dat die geloofwaardigheid van die proses voordeel sal trek indien \u2019n regskundige die saak vir die verdediging van die beweerde klagtes hanteer. Na my mening sal dit ook \u2019n meer ewewigtige bydrae tot die potensi\u00eble impak op die munisipaliteit lewer en so ook die moontlikheid van prosedurele verwere verminder.<\/superbyline><superbyline>Ek kan in hierdie stadium nog nie op die meriete van die klagtes reageer nie en wens net te meld dat \u2019n volledige verslag by geleentheid vir deursigtigheid aan die raad voorgel\u00ea sal word, wanneer die onafhanklike komitee sy aanbevelings doen.<\/superbyline><superbyline><br>\n <span>.<\/span> 2. \u201cGrief ingedien teen ander ho\u00eb amptenaar\u201d<\/superbyline><superbyline>Hier het ons te doen met \u2019n formele grief wat volgens \u2019n regverdige en voorgeskrewe prosedure hanteer moet word. Hierdie is \u2019n bevinding wat gemaak moet word deur die verantwoordelike griefhanteerder nadat \u2019n geleentheid gebied is om beide kante se weergawe aan te hoor, en om, indien moontlik, te bemiddel in die belang van die munisipaliteit. 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