Tshwane Municipality in final stages of blacklisting Sodi's Blackhead Consulting

JOHANNESBURG - The Tshwane Municipality said it was in the final stages blacklisting as a service provider, Blackhead Consulting, the company owned by controversial businessman, Edwin Sodi. 

Blackhead was part of a consortium of three companies that were awarded the over R250 million tender to upgrade the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant. 

The upgrades were botched, leading to Pretoria North areas, like Hammanskraal, not having clean drinking tap water.

ActionSA recently revealed the municipality had not blacklisted Sodi’s company from the database of approved service providers. 

However, in a media briefing on Thursday, Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink, said the city had to restart the blacklisting process after doing it wrong the first time.

"The officials responsible for awarding the refurbishment contract to a consortium linked to Edwin Sodi are on suspension and the city is in the Labour Court to have them dismissed. That consortium and their directors have until the 26th of September to give the city reasons why they should not be blacklisted, whereafter the blacklisting committee will make a recommendation to National Treasury."