But Maine Management and Chartered Accountants Incorporated has said the municipality was right to pay the money to them

The Hawks are also investigating a criminal case in which a company was paid for services it did not deliver

Judge Lebogang Modiba, who has seized more than R500-million in alleged PPE graft, replaces Judge Mlindelwa Gidfonia Makhanya

The court also dismissed applications by Edwin Sodi and two former Free State officials, saying their objections should be aired in the criminal trial not on a preliminary basis

The case for dropping the charges faced by the suspended ANC secretary general himself will be heard on Tuesday