A new black empowerment policy shake-up aims to oust fat cats and tenderpreneurs once and for all from the procurement landscape.
The public protector’s office says tenders benefiting embattled youth league president Julius Malema won’t be cancelled now, but its probe continues.
More than 100 public works department contracts are being investigated for "irregular expenditure" an internal report leaked to the <i>M&G</i> reveals
A damning report on basic education spending queries the adequacy of the state’s watchdog committees.
Acting public works director general Sam Vukela has accused the department’s minister, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, of acting in bad faith.
Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde says she inherited a "poisoned chalice" after irregularities in the awarding of certain tenders was found in public works.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will decide this week whether to investigate a communications tender in the Western Cape.
Helen Zille has denied that her office awarded a communications tender worth R1-billion to an advertising agency without following proper channels.
Contracts worth R250-million went to a company linked to the DG’s mother-in-law to be, but all parties deny that there is a conflict of interest.
Siphiwe Nyanda on Sunday said his former director general Mamodupi Mohlala had "crossed the line" following a <I>Sunday Independent</i> report.
The Public Protector has been unable to find irregularities in contracts awarded to Julius Malema’s SGL Engineering Projects.
There was "nothing dodgy" about a multi-million rand property deal for new police offices in Pretoria, the Department of Public Works said on Monday.
More tender irregularities are emerging from the beleaguered Water Affairs Department.
Turmoil has enveloped the top echelons of fuel parastatal PetroSA, with three top executives being suspended last week and then reinstated this week.
The ANCYL in Mpumalanga has demanded a ban on politicians and government employees having interests in entities that do business wit the state.
A R29-million tender awarded by Eskom to Kwanda Ferro-Alloy African Resources was fatally flawed, the Supreme Court of Appeal held on Friday.
South Africa’s largest trade union federation has called for an official inquiry into allegations of impropriety involving a social grants tender.
ANC heavyweight Valli Moosa has spun through the revolving door, sharing in an Eskom outsourcing contract worth hundreds of millions of rands.
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/ 22 February 2009
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reveals a fresh conflict of
interest for the SAA boss.
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/ 20 February 2009
The M&G has been vindicated in its findings about a multibillion-rand Eskom tender involving former minister Valli Moosa, reports Sam Sole.
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/ 18 February 2009
Valli Moosa, former chairperson of the Eskom board, failed to manage a conflict of interest in the awarding of a contract, the public protector said.
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/ 13 February 2009
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> follows up on the findings of contract irregularities by the Auditor General.