After Maverick Citizen exposed the Gauteng Department of Education’s expenditure of R431m on the sanitising of schools in 2020, the Special Investigation Unit filed an application to the Special Tribunal against the companies for the ‘disgorgement of all the profits they acquired’.
An investigation by the SIU has revealed that the Gauteng education department did not follow due process in the procurement of services to decontaminate schools.
The Special Investigating Unit has been granted an order to freeze R40.7m worth of assets belonging to 14 companies, after its investigation into allegations of ‘unlawful procurement of services’ by the Gauteng Department of Education to decontaminate schools.