Tshwane’s multi-billion waste tenders scandal
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SEVERAL waste collection and management contracts, collectively worth more than R6-billion and irregularly awarded by the City of Tshwane (COT) to companies in which over 4000 employees, several politicians and union members have interests, are the subject of investigations by the Hawks. Investigations by The African Mirror have discovered a nine-year-old network, which used at least 22 companies to milk the COT for the past 11 years and has been the subject of three forensic probes. The forensic investigators submitted reports with recommendations that the city must cancel the contracts, suspend, take action against those implicated and…