{"id":5200,"date":"2013-06-12T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:40:28","slug":"my-anc-donation-in-exchange-for-your-government-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My ANC donation in exchange for your government contract&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bribery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4867\" title=\"Bribery\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bribery-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bribery-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bribery.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The KwaZulu-Natal government wanted a contract with a Cape Town-based Uruguayan businessman to be concluded quickly so he could make a donation to the ANC, the Mercury reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni allegedly told this to Kantha Padayachee, who is challenging her suspension from the provincial health department in the Labour Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Padayachee, who was the health department&#8217;s legal services general manager, told the court that Nkonyeni told her about the donation when she raised concerns about the contract for oxygen-generating plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;She told me she [Nkonyeni] had just become the treasurer of the ANC in the province and was under pressure to conclude the contract [with Intaka] so the ANC could receive the donation,&#8221; Padayachee was quoted as saying by the Mercury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the paper, Padayachee was in court fighting her three-year suspension from the department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She claims she was suspended after being interviewed by the Hawks in connection with a corruption case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case, Uruguayan businessman Gaston Savoi and several senior KwaZulu-Natal government employees were charged with racketeering, fraud, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mercury reported that the State alleged Savoi made a R1 million donation to the ANC to secure the contract to supply water purification and oxygen-generating plants to the provincial departments of local government and health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkonyeni, who was now the speaker in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, was initially charged, but these charges were withdrawn in October. The health department said Padayachee was suspended after misconduct charges were brought against her. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KwaZulu-Natal government wanted a contract with a Cape Town-based Uruguayan businessman to be concluded quickly so he could make a donation to the ANC, the Mercury reported on Wednesday. Former KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni allegedly told this to Kantha Padayachee, who is challenging her suspension from the provincial health department in the Labour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;My ANC donation in exchange for your government contract&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,1722,219,3062,832,3063,12250],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-bribery","tag-corruption","tag-kantha-padayachee","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-peggy-nkonyeni","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bribery.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}