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ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is threatening legal action against the City of Tshwane in a bid to force it to reveal dealings with businessman Edwin Sodi’s Blackhead Consulting.
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This after an anonymous official from the city revealed that the corruption-accused Sodi and Blackhead Consulting was allegedly awarded a tender of more than R200 million.
The revelation was made at the ActionSA hearings into the Hammanskraal water crisis this past weekend.
Mashaba claims the city awarded Sodi a tender to consult on the Hammanskraal water crisis.
Our legal team, as we are speaking [are preparing the court papers] in the next half an honour I would be signing the PAIA progress to force them to provide us with the information, said Mashaba.
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Today ActionSA visited the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Plant in Hammanskraal to reveal the continued failure of the City of Tshwane to address the water crisis for the people of Hammanskraal and surrounding communities.
Despite the shocking story of the water quality issues reaching their zenith in 2017, the City of Tshwane has seemingly made no progress whatsoever in improving the water quality in Hammanskraal. The South African Human Rights Commission has not published findings in their investigation and no public hearings have been called.
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Ace Magashule and 15 co-accused (including five companies), will have to answer to charges of fraud, theft, corruption, money laundering and more before a judge in the Bloemfontein High Court in August. The state’s application for a transfer to the higher court from the magistrate’s court was granted on Friday.
Magashule was joined in the dock by Johannesburg businessman and owner of Blackhead Consulting, Pheagane Edwin Sodi; director supply chain management in the Free State Department of Human Settlements (FSDHS), Mahlomola John Matlakala; Fourways businessman Sello Joseph Radebe; Pretoria businessman Abel Kgotso Manyeki; former director-general of the national Department of Human Settlements, Thabane Wiseman Zulu; and a former Free State MEC for human settlements and former mayor of Mangaung, Sarah Matawana Mlamleli.
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R10m payment made despite Auditor-General declaring Free State asbestos audit contract irregular
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Johannesburg - One of the three senior government officials charged with fraud, corruption and money laundering alongside ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule approved a R10 million payment despite the Auditor-General declaring the R255m asbestos audit contract irregular.
The payment was authorised by Nozipho Molikoe, the chief financial officer of the Free State human settlements department, to controversial businessman Edwin Sodi s company Blackhead Consulting.
She was arrested on Thursday with the departmentâs chief engineer Thabiso Makepe and Albertus Venter, an attorney who was a senior official in Magashuleâs office during his tenure as Free State premier.