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Mbuso Ngcobo takes the stand in Zandile Gumede’s fraud case

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The Head of the eThekwini Municipality’s Integrity Investigation Unit Mbuso Ngcobo will take the stand when the trial of the municipality’s former mayor Zandile Gumede and 21 others will resume in the High Court in Durban on Monday.

The matter was adjourned on Friday to allow the state to provide Gumede’s legal team with further documents.

The case against Gumede and others is related to alleged fraud in a 2017 multi-million-rand Durban Solid Waste removal tender.

They face over two-thousand charges that include conspiracy to commit corruption, corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering.

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More than 100 witnesses 

The state says it will bring over 100 witnesses to testify in the fraud and corruption case against former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and her 20 co-accused. They are facing charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.

The case stems from an allegedly irregular multimillion-rand waste disposal tender in 2017.

During the first day of the trial at the Durban High Court, the state outlined the charges against the accused and how Gumede, former city manager, Sipho Nzuza and the former head of the Durban Solid Waste, Robert Abbu, colluded in the manipulation of the waste removal tender to award it to their preferred companies.

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