{"id":98307,"date":"2017-07-20T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/nkandla-fall-guy-tells-her-side-of-the-story\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T06:32:22","slug":"nkandla-fall-guy-tells-her-side-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/nkandla-fall-guy-tells-her-side-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nkandla &#8216;fall guy&#8217; tells her side of the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2017\/07\/20\/Nkandla_fall_guy_tells_her_side_of_the_story\/\">#Nkandla &#8216;fall guy&#8217; tells her side of the story<\/a>: Durban &#8211; Jayshree Pardesi should not have been on the committee that signed off on a dodgy multimillion-rand tender for work on President Jacob Zuma\u2019s Nkandla home. At the last minute, her boss asked her to stand in for him at the June 2010 meeting. Now seven years later, she risks losing her job for the decisions she made that day. Over the past several months, the internal disciplinary hearings of a number of Public Works officials implicated in the awarding of contracts for upgrades have been postponed several times. But on Wednesday, Pardesi\u2019s finally got going and for the first time the public will see how the events around the upgrades unfolded&#8230;.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2017\/07\/20\/Nkandla_fall_guy_tells_her_side_of_the_story\/\">WN.com &#8211; Southafrica News<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2017\/07\/20\/Lotto_results_Wednesday_19_July_2017\/\">Lotto results: Wednesday 19 July 2017<\/a>: EWN now brings you the winning Lotto results. 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