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SIU saves Gauteng health dept more than R126m in illegal PPE contracts This comes after the SIU successfully instituted civil matters in the special tribunal to declare that millions of rands held in bank accounts of 20 companies and entities be forfeited to the state. Picture: Supplied. 46 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) on Thursday said it had saved the Gauteng Department of He...

Getty Images A number of companies which received money from Ledla Structural Development have been ordered to pay the money back to the state. This, after the PPE tender awarded to Ledla by the Gauteng Health Department, was reviewed and set aside. The SIU found that Ledla was a proxy for Royal Bhaca Projects, a company owned by the politically connected Madzikane ll Thandisizwe Diko. The Special Tribunal has ordered that almost two dozen companies which received money from the Gauteng Departm...

@GautengANC, Twitter Judge Billy Mothle amended paragraphs in his judgment that made it seem the premier had personally given the names of companies to be appointed as service providers for PPE as opposed to his office. The judgment was in relation to multimillion-rand PPE tenders that were awarded irregularly and Mothle ruled that the tenders be set aside and cancelled and the money forfeited to the state. One of the companies implicated was Ledla Structural Development, which is a "proxy" for...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Documents in a court action have revealed how SAPS Crime Intelligence attempted to have R45-million released from the Secret Service Account (SSA) in 2017 to deal with a “possible national security threat” of some “magnitude” before the ANC’s highly charged elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg in 2017. Lieutenant General Francinah Vuma, divisional commissioner: financial management and administration, in an affidavit...

Special leave Diko took special leave in July last year after a report emerged that her husband, Chief Madzikane II Diko, was awarded a R125 million tender to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to the department, News24 reported at the time. An investigation by the SIU was initiated by President Cyril Ramaphosa. "The SIU has reported that while the corruption component of the investigation is ongoing, the SIU has thus far not obtained any evidence pointing to Dikos involvement in the aw...

SIU guns for dodgy PPE tenders By Manyane Manyane Share Johannesburg - Buoyed by a “great victory” in which a judge confirmed its findings and set aside a multimillion-rand Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) contract, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has vowed to press ahead with current investigations and recover all the money illegally received by the beneficiaries. SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said the judgment against a front company for Royal Bhaca – owned ...

The SIU argued that the tender to supply Covid-19 items was unlawfully, irregularly and corruptly awarded to Ledla Structural Development.

Special Tribunal rules Gauteng PPE contract as unlawful Updated Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile Share this: The Special Tribunal has ordered that the contract for personal protective equipment (PPE) awarded to Ledla Structural Development by the Gauteng Health Department as unlawful. iStock     The matter was taken to the tribunal in August by the Special Investigative United (SIU) and involves 39 other companies that were contracted to deliver PPE to the department.   Ledla received R38.7 million ...

Getty Images The controversial Gauteng PPE tender awarded to Ledla Structural Development and three others has been set aside, reviewed and cancelled. A tribunal ruled that money held in the bank accounts of Ledla Structural Development, Rhulani Mboweni Lehong and Kgodisho Norman Lehong be forfeited to the State. Judge Billy Mothle has also ruled that an interim interdict prohibiting the payment of pension and retirement benefits to  former CFO Kabelo Mantsu Lehloenya be extended. The contro...