There was “secrecy” around the appointment of Durban architect Minenhle Makhanya as the lead architect on upgrades to former president Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, a forensic investigator testified on Tuesday.
Special Tribunal spokesperson Selby Makgotho is sitting in the hearing and has provided details of the evidence of the first witness, a senior SIU forensic investigator, whose identity is being withheld.
There was no open tender or competitive bidding for the job and the architect had been paid a R2m professional fee, upfront, based on his letter of appointment. She said when submissions for approval of the project were made to the acting director-general of public works in September 2009, Makhanya had already been appointed the previous month and reference was made to the fact that Zuma had already appointed private consultants.
The witness said Makhanya was not registered as a service provider with the department, though in an interview he claimed to remember submitting the documents for registration.
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