State capture implicated businessman Edwin Sodi was awarded a contract to the value of R291 million for the Rooiwal upgrade, which didn't take place
and to recover any financial losses suffered by the State, in terms of the Special Investigating Unit and Special Tribunals Act, 1996.
Situated upstream of Hammanskraal, Rooiwal has insufficient capacity to deal with the volume of wastewater entering the works, theAndre Louwrens, whose farm is in Vastfontein, north of Pretoria, said at the time: “A few years ago, there was a catastrophic failure of Rooiwal. Everything shut down, nothing was working and the Apies River just filled up with deep, dark, black sewage for a month.
Sodi was allegedly awarded a contract to the value of R291 million for the Rooiwal upgrade, despite not being competent to carry out this kind of work. In addition, recentIn March 2020, the Pretoria high court In its report, the commission said it was clear that the wastewater treatment works in the City of Tshwane were malfunctioning. “As a result, the freshwater sources — the Apies, Tolwane, Pienaar and Hennops rivers and the Roodeplaat and Leeukraal dams — are being polluted with untreated and partially treated sewage and sludge.”
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