This paper attempts to examine the massive corruption that occurred in the Ethekwini Municipality, in respect of essential delivery of services, housing, tender fraud and a host of other issues. This has occurred in the coastal City of Durban, KwaZulu (KZN) Natal Province, amidst national condemnation and a major embarrassment to the integrity of the City and, to the ruling African National Congress led government in the province. An audit was commissioned some two years ago by government in 2011, by the KZN Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Corporate Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Nomuse Dube and, was compiled and prepared by independent auditors, Manase and Associates. The probe was initiated after the Auditor General of the Republic of South Africa categorically stated in his 2009 / 2010 report that the municipality had irregularly spent R532 million (R = Rands). The paper does not pretend to capture every subtle nuance and all of the corruption issues raised in the exhaustive 700 page report, on the basis that the report is more relevant to wider governance, social, political, economic, development and integrity issues that permeate corruption as a whole. It is now almost five years since the Auditor General tabled the findings to government and, nothing tangible has been done nor undertaken by the municipal government of Durban to deal with the findings of the Manase Report and, bring the culprits to book or for that matter press criminal charges against those that violated public trust, compromised the city of Durban, and have tarnished the reputation of the city and, further compromised the inhabitants and residents of the city of Durban. It can be categorically stated that the ruling party, the ANC pays lip service to sound governance. It pays lip service by insincere rhetoric that, it will deal with corruption decisively. On the contrary corruption is increasing within the city municipality and the ruling party is protecting its own members, as local government elections are only 18 months away, and it dare not upset the status quo for obvious reasons. It is against this background that an attempt will be made to unpack some salient issues that encompass the Manase Report. It is therefore, apt that the title of the paper describes the Manase report as the killing of a fly and how not to investigate corruption. In reality it is the negation of democratic governance, a whitewash, a damn squib, by the ruling party, to wipe the report under the carpet, in order to pursue its own agenda, and basically in a disguised manner, accept the reality of corruption by its members within the municipality, rather than consolidate sound governance, public accountability, invoke the rule of law in terms of public administration and, invoke management principles and techniques, in a quest not to erode constitutional democracy.