After cancelling the normal tender process, economic development executive director and current acting city manager Anele Qaba has been accused of signing a deviation the very next day that ultimately led to a company being handpicked as a middleman between the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and SMMEs.

This is among the bombshell allegations made in a leaked PwC forensic report into the city’s contracts with Moximark (Pty) Ltd, trading as SK Business Consultants (SKBC), for the provision of socioeconomic consultancy services...