Durban city manager Mike Sutcliffe will not know the outcome of a fraud and corruption investigation in which he is implicated before he vacates his post at the end of the month.
Sutcliffe and former mayor Obed Mlaba are being investigated in connection with allegations of irregular spending and shady housing contracts. KwaZulu-Natal's cooperative governance department spokesman Lennox Mabaso said the investigation, initiated by MEC Nomusa Dube, was ongoing.
"As a department, we were and are not investigating an individual but issues and affairs of eThekwini Municipality.
"But if there's anything that an individual must account for, that person will be called to do that."
The ANC called on Dube to order a forensic investigation after the Auditor-General had found that the city had irregularly spent R535-million.
An audit has implicated Sutcliffe and three officials in irregular housing contracts worth R3.5-billion over the past 10 years.
Mlaba allegedly had shares in a company that almost landed a R3-billion tender to convert the city's waste into energy.
