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A row is brewing that raises new questions about the capacity of the NPA to handle complex, politically fraught cases.

Just one month after four new contractors were appointed by eThekwini Municipality to handle waste collection in townships, they presented “huge invoices” which threatened to suck dry the allocated budget within two or three months.

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.

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.