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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 Health more than R126 million in illegal personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts. This comes af...

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 Department of Health through a personal protective equipment (PPE) tender awarded to Ledla Structural Devel...

@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 Royal Bhaca Projects and is owned by presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko's husband, Madzikane ll...

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 to the South Gauteng High Court, set out how that December a “minister in the security cluster”...

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 Diko's involvement in the awarding of two contracts by the Gauteng Department of Health to Royal Bhaca or in respect of the irr...