DA asks Public Protector to investigate EC toilet tender award to ANC Inc.
2 March 2015
I have this morning asked the Public Protector to investigate the awarding of a R631 million contract for building 66 000 toilets in the Eastern Cape to a company linked to family of President Jacob Zuma, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe, and Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu.
This follows the Amathole District municipality's awarding of a contract, allegedly without going to tender, to politically-connected Siyenza Group for the building of toilets in several villages in the rural Eastern Cape (see here).
An investigative project by the Saturday Dispatch has found that those linked to Siyenza Group include:
President Jacob Zuma's son-in-law Lonwabo Sambudla