Suspicious payments, including a disguised donation, flowed to a company owned by Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo and to the ANC in the months directly before and after JSE-listed technology company, EOH, landed major contracts with the City.
While the transactions between the entities linked to Makhubo and Makhubedu were not the central focus of the initial investigation, they reveal a pattern similar to the broad findings summarised by Van Coller as evidence of “unsubstantiated payments, suspected tender irregularities and other suspected unethical business dealings”.
The ENS investigation identified suspicious payments made both before and after these contracts were awarded: Some went directly to the ANC; others to Makhubo’s Molelwane Consulting and some to shadowy “enterprise development” partners who apparently did no work to justify their fees. It is not clear whether these amounts were paid in full; the investigators identified over R2-million in payments that TSS made to the ANC during this two-month period.
A fourth EOH executive who features large is Ebrahim Laher, who was chief executive of EOH International and headed its SAP business. The City was going ahead with advertising, “this despite their assurance that they would rather extend our contract”, Laher complained. A seemingly telling email is one sent to EOH’s Mackay on 2 November 2015 by a colleague regarding the outsourced ICT services tender being advertised.The email suggests that even though Makhubo was an MMC, and was not supposed to interfere with the City’s procurement, EOH believed he was their key to securing them.Powell told the commission: “It appears Makhubo and Makhubedu mostly communicated on Gmail. Only some of these emails were forwarded to the EOH server.
More email evidence referring to tender requirements for the SAP upgrade tender show that Makhubo may have engaged with Makhubedu and Laher about the contract before and after the deadline submission date.Indeed, as EOH executives were scrambling to secure the city’s tenders, the ANC was trying to maintain its foothold in the upcoming 2016 local government elections and this required money.
“I have communicated our agreements to the ANC leadership especially the regional office bearers and province. I have also committed expenditure to ensure that we get renewal of our mandate of transforming Joburg.
Die hele lot skelm!!! 27 years wasted looted with a dash of litter and KFC!!! Jan jou bliksem!!!
SamSoleZA Looters of the myAnc.Their most upstanding talent on show
Nothing new with ANC cadres, their deployment is to loot, and loot nothing else. Can we jst get these ass*les out of government and after that we should prepare for civil war
How rotten is the ANC ! From top to bottom.
Bloody crook
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »
Source: dailymaverick - 🏆 3. / 84 Read more »
Source: ewnupdates - 🏆 30. / 53 Read more »
WATCH LIVE | Joburg mayor Geoff Makhubo testifies at Zondo commissionJohannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo will give evidence at the state capture inquiry on Friday. He was implicated in testimony this week, in relation to questionable payments made by an IT company. More lies I suppose, allegedly of course
Source: TimesLIVE - 🏆 28. / 59 Read more »
Ramaphosa confirms ANC NEC's support for Zondo commissionThe ANC NEC has called on party members to refrain from attacking deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo He must specify that Zuma's faction must stop attacking Zondo.. It's not we don't know there is a factional war in the party🥱 ANC members has been told not to use their brains.
Source: SundayTimesZA - 🏆 47. / 51 Read more »