'You f***ed up, idiots': judge tells City Power officials

23 May 2015 - 11:42 By Times LIVE
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City Power officials have been called “idiots” and accused of “f***ing up” over their unwillingness to reveal information about a R800 million solar geyser deal.

“In a Promotion of Access to Information case brought by Numsa, the metal workers union, against City Power, Judge Kathy Satchwell accused the utility’s officials of “covering up fraud and corruption” over its refusal to hand over documents relating to the contract on solar geyser heaters,” according to the Saturday Star.

According to the report, Judge Satchwell was unimpressed with City Power’s failure to respond to Numsa’s requests for information since 2013.

“Some person” within City Power, the judge remarked, was “lazy, covering up, hiding things, and idiots and the like” and the “knowledge of such things comes to one like a dagger in the night”.

City Power lawyers argued that Satchwell had used “profanities” in her chambers against the utility’s attorneys by calling them “idiots” and remarking that someone had “f***ed up”.

The utterances were apparently made in April in Judge Satchwell’s chambers when she granted an order of costs to Numsa.

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