Zandile Gumede 'principal controller' in eThekwini fraud
The crimes were not overtly complicated, based on what the state said in the first week of trial. But they were brazen.
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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.