Tasked with driving development in the province’s struggling municipalities, not one of the Eastern Cape’s municipal development agencies has had a clean bill of health from the auditor-general.
In a brazen bid to take control of lucrative building contracts, alleged associates of notorious Cape Town gang boss Ralph Stanfield allegedly threatened top City of Cape Town officials in their offices, warning them to hand over contracts.
A couple who bought a house in Bloemfontein for R1.3m in July 2013 and discovered problems within a year of ownership have failed in their bid to claim damages for the defects.