The Hawks have agreed to prioritise an investigation into an allegedly corrupt City Power contractor in Eldorado Park‚ Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has announced. He said this followed serious allegations of corruption being brought to his attention‚ relating to a contract awarded to build a new electricity substation in Eldorado Park. Mashaba said that he had met on Friday with subcontractors‚ who are owed R1.8m by the contractor. "I was shocked at the details of corruption‚ fraud and nonpayment detailed by them‚" he said. The contract to build a new substation in Eldorado Park is worth R126m. Despite receiving a significant remittance from the city‚ thus far totalling R66m‚ the contractor has failed to deliver on a number of specific tasks which have already been paid for‚ Mashaba added. This week‚ tensions rose at the City Power substation in Eldorado Park‚ when employees of sub-contractors protested against the contractor and threatened to burn the substation down. Communit...
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