JACOB Zuma's lawyer, Michael Hulley, sat on bid committees that decided on the awarding of a R10-billion tender to distribute social grants that the High Court in Pretoria has found to have been irregular. 

The FBI has interviewed witnesses with evidence of bribery in the scandal, as more than 7 000 pages of previously sealed court records raise new questions about how Net1 clinched the tender. 

Net1' s Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) won the tender in January to distribute social grants worth R500-billion to 15 million people for the next five years. But this was only after bid officials had mysteriously lowered the scores of short-listed bidder Absa subsidiary Allpay. 

In August, the High Court in Pretoria ruled the deal was illegal, saying the lowering of Allpay's scores was "unfair and irrational ", seemingly done for an "ulterior purpose". But the court decided not to cancel the contract because of the risk to millions of social grants beneficiaries, prompting Allpay to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal. 

E-mails in the court documents show Hulley sat on bid committees that decided on the R10-billion tender as "overall strategic adviser" to government's Social Services Agency (Sassa) even though he had acted as Sassa's legal adviser when Net1 sued the welfare agency in a number of unrelated cases. 

It is unclear what services Hulley rendered for his R21 000 a-day contract, although there is speculation he was there to look after Zuma's interests*1. 

Net1 CEO Serge Belamont said he had no idea what Hulley did for Sassa, as he didn't think Hulley "knew anything" about social welfare tenders. "I'm not surprised he's involved. Isn't he Zuma's legal adviser?" he said. 

"I've met him half a dozen times . . . because he was also involved with Sassa in terms of the lawsuits we have. I knew he was involved in making sure these lawsuits were settled at some point in time," he said. 

Former bid committee chairman Norman Arendse reported that he was approached by Gideon Sam in 2007, who said CPS had an open chequebook to reward adjudicators if the tender went to CPS. That initial bid was then scrapped and a new process began last year with new adjudicators. CPS ultimately won.

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The monster that the NPA has released among us. 

First Thomson-CS paid him R500 kR per year until ADS started paying dividends to protect it. 

Then he got R10 million for his country estate. 

Then he organised for his nephew to get a multi-million share of Iscor. 

Then he got another R240 million for his country estate. 

Then he gets all his department heads to contribute R5 billion to upgrading the immediate area of his county estate. 

Then he gets his own personal lawyer to be appointed as presidential legal advisor and get a share of another fiscal R10-billion tender. 

Mugabe has been creating his own evil, but that took him about 32 years. 

This do-evil has done about as much in 3 years with another 7 to go. 

I wonder what was Moe's share for getting him out of jail? 

Strike this evil down. 

Staan op. 

Tree aan.