Gupta company fails to pay R4.2m clinic bill
Optimum Coal Mine has failed to pay a R4.2 million invoice to a company contracted to build a new state-of-the-art public health clinic. The Gupta family-owned Optimum is the company at the centre of the Public Protector’s State of Capture report and could face losing its mining rights, GroundUp reported. Optimum owns a coal-mine in Hendrina, Mpumalanga. Its mining rights are dependent on fulfilling its social and labour commitments in […]