The City of Tshwane has been ordered to pay over R1.3 million to five suspended officials after a bargaining council ruled their suspensions were 'capricious and arbitrary'.
Nine months after the City of Tshwane suspended five senior officials with pay for their roles in the irregular award of the Rooiwal tender, it has been ordered to pay them collectively more than R1.3 million in consolation.According to a bargaining council ruling issued shortly before Christmas, the suspensions were “capricious and arbitrary”, and a press release issued by the city at the time “caused irreparable harm to the dignity, reputation and social status” of the five officials.
This new financial obligation came shortly after Eskom named Tshwane its fourth biggest debtor, with R6.7 billion in arrear debt at the end of November. The tender for upgrading the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Plant was awarded in 2019 to NJR Projects and Blackhead Consulting, owned by ANC benefactor Edwin Sodi, in a joint venture (JV) with CMS Water Engineering. The award was made during the tenure of former DA mayor Stevens Mokgalapa and was aimed at improving the quality of water supplied to residents of Hammanskraal. A subsequent forensic report found that the JV was non-compliant and should have been disqualified from the bidding process. It recommended disciplinary action against the five officials. According to the bargaining council ruling, the officials remained in their posts during the disciplinary process. They were found guilty on only one of the four charges against them, and the chair of the disciplinary panel imposed a one-month suspension without pay for each. The city, with the support of then DA mayor Cilliers Brink, considered this as a “slap on the wrist” and applied to the Labour Court to have the sanction rescinded and the officials fired. That case is still pendin
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