The department of public works has become the second government entity to take legal steps to ban one of Edwin Sodi's companies from doing business with the state.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi is allowed to use his Bryanston, Johannesburg, house even though the property is part of assets that were frozen by the Assets Forfeiture Unit (AFU) pending a money laundering and corruption case.
A subcontractor and a group of employees have told of how businessman Edwin Sodi failed to pay them – some as little as R220 a day, leaving them in distress and debt, in the R282m tender to extend a prison in Parys, Free State.