familiar with, a business associate and/or a partner of Mr. Thalente
Myeni, either directly or indirectly,’ said Empire Technology’s lawyer.
But Shantan Reddy was also the deputy chairperson of his father’s
Edison Power Group, and I discovered indisputable financial links
between Edison Power and Myeni’s Premier Attraction 1016. In the
2014 / 15 financial year, Edison paid Premier Attraction just over R 240
000 in three instalments for ‘consulting services’, according to financial
records. Although this was a relatively small amount, the implication of
these payments was significant. It cast serious doubt over Shantan
Reddy’s assertion that he did not know Myeni. Not only were their
respective vehicles allegedly spotted outside a Durban hotel at the same
time, but Edison, in which Reddy held a senior position, had also made
payments to Myeni’s company in at least one financial year.
Edison stated that it had paid Premier Attraction about R 276 000
‘over a period of time’ for ‘legitimate services’. Myeni’s company had
been among some forty-five ‘emerging subcontracting companies’
Edison had paid for doing work on one of its many projects, said
Edison’s lawyer.
However, Vivian and Shantan Reddy apparently had no clue that
Premier Attraction’s principal was Thalente Myeni, or that their
‘emerging subcontractor’ was the son of Dudu Myeni. ‘The directors
and/or senior executives of Edison Power are not involved in such
appointments. No one was aware of who the principal of Premier
Attraction was or indeed who his parents were,’ claimed Edison.
Back in Vrede, five years after Tekeweni and VNA first began work
there, only 166 houses had been finished and occupied by November
2018 , according to a written response from the FSHS. In early 2017 ,
Tekeweni had pulled out of the project and the department had
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