Top official held over R4.8m Covid awareness campaign

A top local official has been arrested in connection with a dodgy Covid-19 door-to-door awareness campaign that cost the OR Tambo district R4.8m.

The Mthatha-based municipality’s whippery service manager, Phumzile Johnson Gwadiso, 48, was picked up by the Hawks on Friday morning and  appeared in the Mthatha magistrate’s court on tender fraud charges...

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