Zandile Gumede trial: Top official scrambled to deliver basic services as dodgy contracts started taking shape

A senior Durban Solid Waste official testifying in the Zandile Gumede trial says he battled to deliver services in Umlazi in December 2017.

This after his subordinates failed to work through over a thousand bid applications for refuse collection, leaving the city scrambling to provide services, particularly in Umlazi.The senior official said that he was working on supplementing services with in-house staff from 1 to 13 December 2017, accused Robert Abbu, his subordinate at the time, was working on new contracts through the City's bid adjudication committee using a section 36 clause.

The senior official said during this period, they planned to supplement services to areas where contracts had ended."This would be done through in-house services, where workers would be paid overtime to pick up refuse after they had completed their normal duties for the day."However, the in-house service almost immediately ran into problems after staff was allegedly intimidated by workers from previous contractors, the senior official said.

This after reports surfaced municipal staff was being intimidated by business forums whose members threatened them at gunpoint.

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