LOCAL The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has failed in its attempt to recoup more than R92m paid by the Amahlathi local municipality in the Eastern Cape to businessman Mcebisi Mlonzi. The high court in Makhanda this week dismissed the SIU’s application to declare unlawful and void a hire-purchase agreement entered[…]
Gauteng premier David Makhura has rubbished claims that members of his family have been involved in personal protective equipment (PPE) tender corruption, saying that legal action will be taken against anyone who makes this claim. “I dismiss, with contempt, the lies posted on social media platforms about the involvement of[…]
Gauteng Premier David Makhura says the R125 million tender for the COVID-19 personal protective equipment is the biggest financial scandal his government has faced since he became Premier in 2014. Makhura has placed Health MEC Bandile Masuku on a leave of absence over his alleged involvement in the controversial tender[…]
Cape Town – Glomix House Brokers, where the wife of alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield is the director, has a tender to build 30 houses in the Valhalla Park housing project. “The City of Cape Town was not aware of these allegations until the recent media enquiries,” Mayco member[…]
President Jacob Zuma pocketed a “salary” of R1 million a month from a controversial tender mogul without declaring it to the South African Revenue Service (SARS), claims a new book by former Media24 investigative journalist Jacques Pauw. The President’s Keepers, Pauw’s fifth nonfiction book, hits the shelves this week, and[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has yet to appoint a new social grant service provider to manage its grant distributions, despite a March ruling by the Constitutional Court that a new tender be awarded by October 15th. The deadline was imposed after the court ruled that Sassa’s contract[…]
South African railways officials imported brand new locomotives from Europe worth hundreds of millions of rand despite explicit warnings that the trains are not suited for local rail lines. In what may be the country’s largest and most expensive recent tender blunder the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa)[…]
The Constitutional Court is expected to rule on Tuesday in an application relating to a tender for the payment of social grants. Last year April, the Constitutional Court ordered the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) to start a new tender process for the payment of welfare grants. It said the[…]
The ANC in the Western Cape on Tuesday welcomed a High Court ruling that set aside and ordered the re-evaluation of a R113.5 million tender to rehabilitate sewers in Cape Town. “One would have expected from the ‘best-run’ Cape Town to have sufficiently adapted its internal workings in order to[…]
Eskom had failed to comply with a High Court order that it hand over documents related to the awarding of a R4 billion tender to Areva NP Proprietary, Westinghouse Electric Company said on Tuesday. “It is Westinghouse’s view that Eskom has failed to comply with this court order in material[…]
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