Times Of Swaziland: IMPRESSIVE WORK DONE ON HOUSES

IMPRESSIVE WORK DONE ON HOUSES
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BY SIBONGILE SUKATI on 19/06/2017 04:23:00


PRETORIA - It took a trip to the Gauteng Province in South Africa for contractor
and businessman Bheki Mabuza to finally convince the Public Accounts Committee
(PAC) that he was good at what he does.
This is after the PAC was left extremely pleased when it visited one of the
State houses in Pretoria at Savannah Country Estate, which was constructed by
Mabuza’s company Multi-Build. The state-of-the-art building cost government
around E2.4 million and is currently occupied by the Third Secretary from the
Swazi High Commission in Pretoria.
What prompted the PAC’s visit to the neighbouring country and to inspect the
site was that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation had
given two versions of what had happened to the house at the estate.
Last year, the PAC was told that the ministry had failed to utilise some of the
E4m which had been budgeted for the purchasing of four staff houses in South
Africa.
It had submitted that it had only managed to purchase two houses, one of which
was in the Savannah Country Estate.
They said the house comprised of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, one study, one
spacious kitchen, living area, dining room, double garage, nanny house and a
swimming pool.
However, in May 2017 the committee was informed that no house had been
purchased, but only a piece of land with a slab and a new house constructed.
This, therefore, prompted the MP Thuli Dladla-led committee to conduct an
inspection in loco.
Before the delegation went to inspect the Savannah residence, Mabuza first
briefed them at the embassy in the presence of High Commissioner Dumisile Sukati
of what had happened.