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ConCourt to rule on grants tender
The Constitutional Court will on Thursday give its ruling on the remedy to implement following its decision last year to declare a R10 billion tender to pay welfare grants invalid. In November, the
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Net1 finalises R264m BEE deal
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, the company that administers the national R10 billion social grant contract, has finalised a black economic empowerment (BEE) deal for R264 million, more than a year after
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Dali’s Madiba bust tender above board
There was nothing untoward about awarding a closed tender to Dali Tambo to create a bust of former president Nelson Mandela, Parliament said on Tuesday. “Nothing was untoward,” secretary to Parliam
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Athlone power station tender set aside
The Western Cape High Court has set aside the award of a tender for the decommissioning of the defunct Athlone Power Station. This was because Aurecon was involved in pre-feasibility studies of the
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Call to blacklist big construction firms
Some of the country’s biggest construction companies, who colluded to swindle government out of billions of rand, have received at least R1.5 billion in state contracts since the scandal broke a ye
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Tribunal confirms settlement with WBHO over rail tender
A settlement agreement between Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon (WBHO) and the Competition Commission related to collusive tendering on the Transnet tender project to upgrade a portion of the Sishen-Salda
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Court halts pupil feeding deals
Contracts awarded by the Department of Education for the school nutrition programme at several KwaZulu-Natal schools were nullified in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday. Judge Yvonne Mbath
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SIU pounces on DG in R756m probe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has raided the offices of the Department of Communications and seized computers of the director general and eight other officials in a high-level probe into a p
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Botched RAF tender process to lead to wasteful expenditure
A botched Road Accident Fund (RAF) tender process to appoint a new national panel of attorneys to represent the fund would result in wasteful and fruitless expenditure running into “tens of million
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Tongaat mall contractor: I did my job properly
A steel contractor who was employed on the collapsed Tongaat Mall site stuck to his guns on Wednesday, insisting he had done his work correctly, despite allegations that there was a shortage of ste
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