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for the original tender. Besides Cape Town, the other stations identified for high-speed access gates were Rhodesfield, Windermere, Langa, Bridge City, Moses Mabhida and Orlando.

According to the public protector, then CEO Lucky Montana’s justification was that the highspeed gates were needed for the 2010 World Cup, but the closed tender process used due to the supposed urgency of the work, which secured Siyangena the extra R800 million, only took place in November 2010, four months after the final World Cup match. Two criminal cases related to the tender were lodged against Montana. These cases are still pending. – Groundup.org.za

Picture: EPA Kashmiri labourers extract weeds from Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, yesterday. Temperatures at night are below freezing point.