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The Western Cape education department says it will continue to honour a R1.2 billion tender awarded by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) even after a forensic report uncovered irregularities.
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Western Cape education department refutes R1.2bn tender irregularities

The State Information Technology Agency has recommended an investigation into the tender awarded to Blue Network Consortium

Contracts: Many problems plague the agency responsible for social grants

Five-year drama over Sassa cleaning deal

Welfare agency allegedly bent procurement process to suit a contractor previously found guilty of collusion, and preferred bidder Corporate Cleaning wants damages paid

Umbrage: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has taken the battle with Sakeliga to the constitutional court

Sakeliga has a ‘secret agenda’

But Afriforum’s business wing says the finance minister is playing the race card

Former ANC secretary general Ace Magashule.

Asbestos case: More charges in store for Magashule

Three more people have been arrested, bringing the total of accused to 15, who will appear in the Mangaung magistrate’s court today

Wilful: Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, who appeared in the Durban commercial crimes court on charges of corruption, and her supporters defied ANC resolutions. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

More North West mayors face recall

The ANC is wielding its axe to clear out ineffective councillors and those facing criminal charges

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. (Wikus De Wet/AFP)

Zandile Gumede and her supporters face ANC backlash

Defiant backers of the former eThekwini chairperson and mayor, who has appeared in court over corruption charges linked to a tender, face disciplinary action over ‘divisive’…

As we attempt to recover from the economic and public-health effects of Covid-19, we must also address one of the great challenges facing South Africa, namely, the future of Eskom. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Calls to cap Eskom tariff increases

The national energy regulator has been accused of not following its mandate to protect consumers by allowing above inflation electricity price hikes

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.

PPE scandal takes the bread out of SMEs’ mouths

The Special Investigating Unit is probing contracts worth more than R5-billion, over corruption allegations regarding the procurement of goods and services needed for the…

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has made strides in embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its core operations, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable airport management on the African continent.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Trolley tender causes Acsa eruption

Stolen contract exposes rift in the senior ranks at the state airport’s management companies

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

Phumla Williams during her testimony before the state capture commission. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Corruption case opened against GCIS’ Phumla Williams

​The former head of government communications, Donald Liphoko, has opened a corruption case against the agency’s acting chief executive

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In the paper this week: Here’s the proof linking Pule Mabe to the R49m tender deal and Zackie Achmat is accused of sexual harassment cover-up at NGO

Kwane Capital says there was nothing irregular in the procurement process that awarded it a tender to supply earthmoving equipment to the Mahikeng municipality.

Letters to the editor: September 15 to 21 2017

A reader writes in about Kwane Capital’s tender to supply earthmoving equipment.

“I have my days where I just rock a skirt or dress to school

Wheels come off bus fuel tender

Jo’burg’s Metrobus persisted with a R200m contract despite audit advice to the contrary

Bulldozed: Special Investigating Unit head Jan Mothibi maintains that Kwane Capital was not the true owner of equipment it promised to hand over to the Amahlathi municipality.

SIU and finance company face off over R92-million tender

The Special Investigating Unit claims fraud but the company’s owner says this is defamatory

Blitzed patrol: Cops’ wheels have come off

Hundreds of police cars are out of action after the SAPS botched a multimillion-rand spares tender

Trifecta case: Govt building was incomplete, ten months later

Work to make a Trifecta building ready for government office work in Springbok was left incomplete for 10 months, despite payment having been made.

South Africa has 11.4 million prepaid meters in all, of which Eskom is responsible for updating 6.9 million.  Municipalities are responsible for 4.5 million. (File photo)

Madonsela to investigate City Power tender, despite internal ‘all clear’

The public protector has to verify the findings of a probe City Power claims "cleared" it of corruption in the awarding of a R1.25-billion tender.

North West veers further off the road

Road users might just have to wait longer for construction on the Lichtenburg-Koster road to resume.

R200m spent and going nowhere

Work has again ground to a halt on a provincial road after four years of wrangling over tenders.