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The crimes were not overtly complicated, based on what the state said in the first week of trial. But they were brazen.

The four companies that scored what became a R320m eThekwini Durban Solid Waste contract paid about R36.5m to community-based contractors established by local ANC heavyweights to promote “radical economic transformation” and a “patronage network”, bank statements would show.

Technical glitches with the sound system in court plagued the start of the corruption trial of former eThekwini mayor and ANC heavyweight Zandile Gumede in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Wednesday.



Among key witnesses in the case against former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and her co-accused are councillors and officials. 


The four companies that scored what became a R320m eThekwini Durban Solid Waste contract paid about R36.5m to community-based contractors established by local ANC heavyweights to promote “radical economic transformation” and a “patronage network”, bank statements would show.

After hearing the evidence, said prosecutor Hazel Siramen, the court would be hard-pressed to reach a conclusion other than of the accused being guilty.

The State completed its opening submissions on the second day of the corruption trial of former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and others in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Tuesday.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s case against former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and her co-accused, in a R320-million cash extraction scheme from the city’s solid waste department (DSW) will show that the desired outcome was the self-enrichment of ANC leaders and councillors in KwaZulu-...

The corruption trial of the former mayor of eThekwini and ANC heavyweight, Zandile Gumede, got underway in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Monday.

The state alleges all the accused shared a ‘common goal’ of enriching themselves and the ANC from the proceeds of the payments