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City council says the M27-million agreement was unlawful from the start, but MPs say it remains responsible for the deal <\/em><\/p>\n The Maseru City Council awarded a M27-million (M1=R1) contract it was not legally allowed to sign, and later sought on this basis to cancel the agreement, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee heard on Friday.<\/p>\n The contract with consultancy SSL Joint Venture was to oversee<\/a> the rehabilitation of the T\u0161osane dumpsite and to develop a new landfill.<\/p>\n MPs had asked why the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> City council says the M27-million agreement was unlawful from the start, but MPs say it remains responsible for the deal The Maseru City Council awarded a M27-million (M1=R1) contract it was not legally allowed to sign, and later sought on this basis to cancel the agreement, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee heard on Friday. The contract […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681835:da1ae194ef07ab3a58d128526ad854d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,15697,7062,35550,54744,4717,1407,52677,257,2412,5152,254],"class_list":["post-237885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancellation","tag-contract","tag-dumpsite","tag-fumbled","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maserus","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-questions","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681835:da1ae194ef07ab3a58d128526ad854d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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