Staircases on council properties across the Cape Flats are falling apart – something the City of Cape Town acknowledged three years ago, declaring them in need of urgent attention and awarding a contract to a successful bidder. But the contract was unceremoniously cancelled just four months later. The City’s own investigation into its housing maintenance department allegedly uncovered R300 million worth of irregular expenditure. At the centre of it all: lucrative construction contracts fought over by feuding brothers-in-law. Bribes, death threats, a kidnapping, and a Hawks investigation leading to multiple arrests then followed. But the forensic report that could hold all the answers was suppressed by the municipality. Is there something the City of Cape Town is trying to hide?
Carte Blanche Investigates:

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