Image: Twitter@RSAJudiciaryChairperson of the State Capture Inquiry, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has recommended that government seek legal opinion on how to recover over
R200 million of public money allegedly wasted on the failed Free State asbestos roof eradication projectThis is amongst the recommendations contained in Part Four of the State Capture report officially handed over to the Presidency today. Zondo found that the state did not get value for money from the project awarded to Blackhead Consulting and Diamond Hill Trading. Businessman Edwin Sodi is fingered as the mastermind behind the failed project which allegedly included the bribing of politicians.Zondo adds that the companies made a misrepresentation to the Department of Human Settlements that it had the qualification, expertise, skills and experience necessary for the performance of the job when it had no such.
It is also against this backdrop, that Zondo further recommends that the NPA also give serious consideration to instituting a charge of corruption against Sodi.In March, the High Court in Bloemfontein dismissed applications by suspended African National Congress Secretary-General Ace Magashule and three others to have corruption charges relating to the R255-million asbestos roof contract against them dropped.
Sodi, former Human Settlements director-general Thabani Zulu and former Free State Human Settlements head Nthimotse Mokhesi argued that charges against them were premised on evidence presented before the State Capture Commission of Inquiry.The National Prosecuting Authority has welcomed the judgment, saying it has full confidence in the strength of its case and will let the evidence speak for itself during the trial.
Propaganda idiots. Tell the public from whom the money was recovered from, how it was recovered and the proof of payment
His commission was paid over R1 billion for him to tell government to go seek legal opinion somewhere else... I give up on this guy, he doesn't even deserve a title of a judge even worse a Chief Justice.
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Recommendation is nothing as he was also not recommended to be CJ but….we stuck with him as a country