The City of Johannesburg has suspended a senior official implicated in the controversial awarding of a R1.3bn broadband contract. Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba said the suspension followed an independent forensic investigation‚ which had called for corrective action. "In addition he is seen to be deliberately frustrating an investigation into the city’s seemingly inexplicable R1.3bn acquisition of the 900km broadband network in 2015. "This acquisition was done through MTC‚ a municipal-owned entity‚ which possessed no viable business plan nor had requisite capacity to run a broadband operation of this size‚" Mashaba said in a statement.
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