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Greater Pretoria’s municipality is in trouble but denies that many homes will have to be demolished and rebuilt.

An abandoned multimillion-rand housing project in Ga-Rankuwa Unit 10 in the City of Tshwane will be demolished and rebuilt at an extra cost after contractual disputes with the contractor who abandoned the project in June this year.

However, according to informed sources, the multi-million Rand housing project in Ga-Rankuwa area is already being demolished to be rebuilt.

According to Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Lebogang Maile, who was responding to written questions tabled in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, an amount of R34,170,591.36 has been spent so far in building these houses. which will go down as waste.

“This is a waste of taxpayers’ money and we can no longer tolerate such abuse,” said Kate Lorimer, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng shadow MEC for human settlements and COGTA.

She said the hous
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A little-known company that was awarded a multimillion-rand contract to supply fuel to SAA hasn’t delivered since October last year.

This means that the airline has been short of 2-million litres of fuel a month – although this amount is small enough to not have caused any major problems.

This was testimony at the state capture inquiry on Tuesday.

The company, EML Energy, owned by Pretoria music promoter Eldridge Motlhake, was granted a contract to supply about 2-million litres of Jet-A1 fuel to SAA last year, said SAA head of fuel management Mark Vaughan.

The Sunday Times previously reported that EML stood to make up to R67m a month from the deal.

The commission is in the process of investigating how EML Energy first landed a deal with SA Express, which appointed the energy company to supply 18 times more fuel at Pilanesberg Airport than the airport could use.

The evidence will also focus on alleged fraud and co
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