S everal ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial heavyweights appear to be back in the National Prosecuting Authoritys (NPA) sights over the 14-year-old R144 million Amigos corruption case , which returns to court next month.
Uruguayan tenderpreneur Gaston Savoi who was charged along with former MECs Mike Mabuyakhulu and Peggy Nkonyeni and 20 others in 2010 last week secured a sealed plea bargain agreement with the NPA to testify against government officials involved in the case.
Former KwaZulu-Natal treasury head Sipho Shabalala is already serving 15 years in jail over a R1 million bribe paid by Savois Intaka Holdings in return for contracts to supply water purifiers and oxygen to the provincial government at inflated prices.
Shabalala secured a separation of trial for himself and his wife, Rosemary, a co-accused in the case, which rocked the ANC establishment in the province and has been clouded by claims of political interference over the past decade and a half.
Savoi allegedly used his contacts with the ANC and provincial government officials to supply the water purifiers and self-generating oxygen units to the Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal health departments and to the department of traditional affairs and local government in KwaZulu-Natal in 2006 and 2007.
