Blackhead Consulting and Diamond Hill Trading should not have been awarded the R255 million contract to audit and assess houses with asbestos in the Free State as the companies didn't have the expertise to handle asbestos, the Special Investigating Unit has found.
The SIU's finding, contained in a report dated March last year, is the latest in a series of adverse findings relating to how Blackhead Consulting, Diamond Hill Trading, and the Free State Department of Human Settlements handled the R255 million asbestos contract. Other state organs that have made damaging findings against the three parties include the Hawks and the Office of the Public Protector. Blackhead Consulting is owned by tenderpreneur and ANC benefactor Edwin Sodi.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.