Azwindini Mulaudzi was fired after an internal disciplinary hearing found him guilty on charges of gross negligence.
Property development giants Century Property Development has defended its role in the Auckland Park student accommodation saga, which got the City of Joburg’s building control officer fired for gross negligence.
Azwindini Mulaudzi was fired after an internal disciplinary hearing found him guilty on charges of gross negligence, which caused the municipality reputation, credibility and financial damages. He was put on suspension in April last year, pending an internal forensic investigation, which uncovered irregularities in the granting of provisional authorisation of earthworks and construction.
He maintains the issue with the BCO was that the building plans were included in the Section 76 National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act application file, and a separate submission was not made to council. Therefore, the building plan submission fees were paid only later when the plans were submitted after proclamation of the site.
The developer, behind some of the most upmarket developments in Johannesburg, has been in and out of court with the metro and at some stage construction on the site was ordered to stop. Colbert said Section 76 was a mechanism that council had put in place allowing property owners to start construction at their own risk if there were administrative points that prevented owners from having their building plans passed.
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