The ZondoCommission will continue its probe into the Free State provincial government's handling of an asbestos tender which was irregularly approved.
Sodi's company Blackhead Consulting and its joint-venture partner Diamond Hill had been awarded a multi-million contract by the Free State government to assess houses for asbestos in 2014.
The Free State department of human settlements used this panel appointment of Blackhead Consulting in Gauteng to seek an"extension" of the contract for use in the Free State. In documents shown to Sodi on Wednesday he admitted that the letters he wrote while lobbying for his company's appointment in the Free State, he had omitted to state that Blackhead Consulting was going to perform the asbestosassessment in a joint-venture with Diamond Hill.
The Gauteng head of department for human settlements Margaret-Ann Diedericks confirmed in an affidavit to the commission that if she had been aware that Blackhead's appointment, to provide an asbestos assessment to the Free State government, would be part of a joint-venture she would have never signed off a letter approving Blackhead's appointment.
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