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Scopa to probe claims of Eskom CEO De Ruyter purging black suppliers
The investigation will also include procurement and contract management in general.
The Scopa hearing follows two years in which Prasa got two consecutive disclaimers from the Auditor-General. The rail agency is also the government entity with the highest irregular expenditure at over R1 billion rand.
Eskom, Transnet, the SABC all got qualified audit opinions. Even worse, disclaimers were issued for Denel and Prasa.
Scopa said the distribution of the vaccine was a turning point in the fight against COVID-19 and the country could not afford the recurrence of maladministration and fraud in the tender process.
The anti-corruption task team said that it was making major inroads in the fight against corruption.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said that SAA still had a role to play in the country’s economy and allocating it R10.5 billion was a better option than liquidation.
Scopa slammed the SABC's lack of planning relating to supply chain and contract management.
Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya said that the Hawks were dealing with a huge influx of cases, with Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu’s special report on COVID-19 corruption highlighting 80,000 exceptions or illegal payments that needed to be followed up.
Eskom acting head of legal, Bartlett Hewu, said that they had managed to recoup some money from other contracts.
The unit on Wednesday updated the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on its investigations at the power utility, which got underway over two years ago.
The SIU has referred more than 5,500 officials to Eskom to face disciplinary proceedings for, among other things, failing to declare their financial interests, including a number of employees red-flagged after lifestyle audits.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has had to postpone a meeting with Eskom after being told at the eleventh hour that the board could not attend.
Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Advocate Andy Mothibi briefed Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on the agency’s investigations into contracts and their terms of reference.
The SIU is also looking into hundreds of companies used to procure goods and services for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The finance watchdog on Friday said the adjudication process had become necessary due to claims of irregularities in the awarding of tenders related to the battle against the pandemic.
The Gauteng ANC leadership has decided that Khusela Diko, Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku and his wife Loyiso, appear before the provincial integrity committee and take a leave of absence of two to four weeks.
Members of Parliament (MPs) believe contracts were at the centre of the SABC’s financial woes.
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Alf Lees said that the business rescue process should ideally have ended in December and the rescue team should have applied to court for liquidation back then.
The regional carrier was put into business rescue in February after a creditor launched an urgent court application for its liquidation. The liquidators came into office on 13 May.