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Tebogo Letsie, Gallo Images, City Press The SIU received a total of 189 corruption allegations related to the procurement of PPE.  Gauteng had the most claims of corruption reported, followed by KZN and the Eastern Cape.   SIU head Andy Mothibi says investigations revealed a "flagrant and wanton disregard of the applicable law, policies and procedures". The head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), advocate Andy Mothibi, has lamented the "insatiable pursuit of self-enrichment" by officia...

Companies ordered to pay back money linked to Gauteng PPE tender News24 Wire Picture for illustration. Nurses at work at the Nasrec Expo Centre to house coronavirus patients, Johannesburg, 14 April 2020. Picture: Twitter / SABC The multimillion-rand PPE tender was issued by the Gauteng health department. The Special Tribunal has ordered that almost two dozen companies which received money from the  through a personal protective equipment (PPE) tender awarded to Ledla Structural Development...

Those who illegally scored from millions paid to Diko proxy company must pay it back 04 February 2021 - 19:23 Many companies that received payment from Ledla Structural Development, the company linked to Thandisiwe Diko, will have to pay back the money. Image: SUPPLIED   Nearly two dozen companies that scored from Thandisizwe Dikos “proxy” company after it received millions from the Gauteng health department last year have been ordered to forfeit the money to the s...

Thursday 4 February 2021 - 8:00pm File: Emergency paramedics wearing a full COVID-19 coronavirus personal protective equipment (PPE).  Marco Longari / AFP JOHANNESBURG - Twenty companies, linked to a controversial Gauteng Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) contract, are being forced to pay R10 million back to the state.   Twenty companies, linked to a controversial Gauteng PPE contract, are being forced to pay R10-million back to the state. In December, the contr...

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...

───   19:00 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 The head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), advocate Andy Mothibi, will on Friday brief the nation on finalised investigations and outcomes into allegations of corruption over the Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement. These are regarding allegations levelled against state institutions. This was revealed by the SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago on Wednesday. The pending announcement came nearly two months after the SIU had ...

SIU to release finalised reports on PPE corruption investigations By Baldwin Ndaba Share Johannesburg – The head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), advocate Andy Mothibi, will on Friday brief the nation on finalised investigations and outcomes into allegations of corruption over the Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement by state institutions. This was revealed by the SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago on Wednesday. The pending announcement came nearly two months after ...

@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...

Gauteng Premier David Makhura has succeeded in persuading the Special Tribunal to amend parts of an affidavit which implicated him in personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement irregularities. A judgment handed down by the Special Tribunal on Tuesday states that Makhura was correct in asserting that he did not provide names of companies which received PPE contracts and that it was the premier’s office instead that had been accused of this. “I have, on receipt of the premier’s applica...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s suspended spokesperson, Khusela Diko, failed to disclose financial interests during her tenure in the presidency and now faces an internal disciplinary hearing, the presidency confirmed yesterday.