SIU Raids Lepelle Northern Water Board Over Tender Corruption

Riyaz Patel

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) executed a search and seizure order at the Lepelle Northern Water Board in Polokwane relating to an investigation into alleged tender corruption in a multi-billion rand water project in Limpopo. 

“We’ve been asking the Lepelle Northern Water Board to give us documents and the documents were not forthcoming. We then went to court to get a court order to get what we want,” said the SIU”s Kaizer Kganyago Monday.

He said the SIU investigation is probing alleged corruption in the process of appointing subcontractors in the multi-billion rand water scheme that was meant to provide water to the rural areas of Limpopo. 

“We need to understand how this process went and if there was