Businessman Edwin Sodi has been named in a report of an independent commission of inquiry into a 16-year-old contaminated water crisis in Hammanskraal, Tshwane.
“The biggest question is whether the contaminated water crisis would have persisted this long if it were in Sandton or the so-called 'white suburbs' in Pretoria or Johannesburg,” the report continues.
This, the inquiry found, was evident in the city's failure for 16 years to account to people as to “what happened to the R295m budgeted for the water crisis, which has seemingly disappeared”. The inquiry concluded that the only way forward was to approach the Constitutional Court for an order to compel the city to do what is right.
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