Pholobas Projects News Today

An unresolved murder and attempts to silence a whistleblower are at the heart of court drama around eThekwini municipal tenders that has the city in a tailspin.

Ethekwini municipality’s attempt to hand a dubious R30m ‘settlement’ to a tenderpreneur is unravelling thanks to a bungled court case.

The eThekwini Metro has finally appointed a full-time city manager, after a full council gave the green light for Musa Mbhele, who had been acting in the post, to get the job. 



Electrical contractor Pholobas Projects claims it lost out on contracts after it was sidelined from tender applications by an allegedly corrupt official.

The eThekwini municipality says it has no plans to pay back millions owed to an electrical contractor and will challenge the attaching of its assets.



Durban’s ratepayers will have to fork out more than R30m to an electrical company which claimed it lost out on contracts after it was “blacklisted” from any tenders at the behest of an allegedly crooked official.

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court has ordered the eThekwini Metro to pay R30 million to an electricity contractor the municipality blacklisted in 2017.