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KZN rolls out controversial circumcision device amid safety concerns

The safety and track record of the CircumQ devices has been questioned

Signs are that the transport sector is on the path to recovery.

High court orders Prasa to halt ‘irregular’ GladAfrica tender

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa did not publicise the tender and gave it to the consultancy despite its bid being R346-million more than that of another company.

The fence cost taxpayers R37-million and was described by public works minister Patricia de Lille earlier this year as “not fit for purpose”. (Phil Magakoe/AFP)

Public works tables ‘solutions’ to botched Beitbridge border fence tender

Scopa ‘disappointed’ by slow pace and lack of consequences on Beitbridge irregularities.

The personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement scandal has cast a shadow over small businesses in the textile sector that ventured into manufacturing masks to survive the adverse effects of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Who’s making money from Covid-19?

Our Covid-19 Tender Tracker is monitoring payments awarded for PPE, and we need your help to maintain it.

The passenger rail agency is set to act against officials implicated in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s 2015 report on corruption and maladministration

Prasa to dismiss four ‘Derailed’ officials

The passenger rails agency is to act against officials implicated in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s 2015 report on corruption and maladministration

(John McCann/M&G)

Behind Jo’burg’s dirty tenders

For two years the man parachuted into a City of Johannesburg department dealing with the biggest and most crucial contracts required to run the city has been suspending and…

Troubling: Mcebisi Mlonzi’s company, Kwane Capital (formerly Laman) has contracts with various municipalities. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

More Kwane Capital contracts red-flagged in Eastern Cape

The company has contracts with various municipalities

Moving along swiftly: Former executive Rodney Gounden was on special leave from the RAF when he took up a new job at Medscheme.

Tender irregularity symptoms missed

The beleaguered Road Accident Fund’s former CFO, who was found to have meddled in a tender, is administering the government medical scheme

(John McCann/M&G)

Fleece the state, face the music

Public officials who routinely find loopholes to siphon money out of government coffers may soon find themselves in the dock

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Editorial: At every level the state fails citizens

‘We’re good at the annual hand-wringing about government’s wasteful ways. But what is not quantified is the number of people who are being failed’

This “season of madness” as Ramatlhodi described it, only really began after the ANC elective conference at Mangaung in 2012, where Zuma was re-elected for a second term as the party’s president. (Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

​State to discipline employees doing business with government

The 1 000 public servants who didn’t resign from their companies face disciplinary action or suspension under the Public Service Act.

Jacob Zuma may be gone

Gupta-linked company set to score R800-million in Transnet IT solution tender deal

A suspect Transnet contract lists 60% for a ‘supplier development’ subcontractor.

Left in the dark: Jacques Pauw after the power went out.

Gauteng officials to be criminally charged for tender irregularities

Local government employees will face prosecution for the improper awarding of contracts.

The Solidarity report speculates that it’s “questionable whether South Africa’s economy can continue to recover given a weak export environment

Eskom scrapped a tender that would have saved R1-billion

Underhanded lobbying, delaying tactics and internal squabbling scuppered the power utility’s economical and innovative IT plan

School tender award process flushed away

Mvula Trust is in the spotlight after giving a R21m sanitation contract to an employee’s husband.

The four major construction companies are confident that the Competition Tribunal will clear them of charges of collusion and anti-competitive conduct.

Construction bigwigs deny World Cup stadium bid-rigging

The Competition Commission is confident that the construction companies have a case to answer for World Cup stadium bid-rigging, despite their denial.

Compliance is only part of public procurement. Credibility and integrity carry just as much weight.

R100-million to fix tender road to ruin

The Free State R74 highway fiasco hit businesses, cost jobs and caused a slump in the local market

How many times can Independent news boss Iqbal Surve call “bullshit” on the M&G? Find out in this interview where he says we are CIA-funded.

Sekunjalo Group’s link to health scandal

One of the group’s affiliates is implicated in a probe into a tender for an information system for Gauteng

Soobrayan is not out of the woods yet

The Public Service Commission is investigating the former DG for his alleged involvement in the awarding of a workbooks tender.

Ruling on grants tender damns Sassa

Despite minister’s positive gloss, court highlights its lack of confidence in agency’s bona fides.