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Tender Invitation

GIZ, under the EU and BMZ-funded Good Financial Governance programme, invites bids to develop an electronic AML/CTPF statistics management system for Zambia's Financial…

Development of Lesotho's National Carbon Markets Framework for Article 6 and Voluntary Carbon Markets

The Government of Lesotho, funded by IFAD under the ROLL project, is seeking an individual consultant to develop a National Carbon Markets Legal Framework aligned with Article 6…

Procurement: Transnet Port Terminals has suffered hundreds of millions of rands in losses. Photo: Transnet Port Terminals

Whistleblowers lift lid on Transnet procurement

Sworn affidavits submitted to the Hawks by whistleblowers allege that senior Transnet executives ignored procurement irregularities and collusion in contracts worth over R900…

Graphic: John McCann

South Africa’s parallel State: The cost of letting crime govern

Because in the end, the true cost of crime and corruption is not only measured in billions of rand lost. It is measured in a country that could have been built. And wasn’t

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed the National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola on precautionary suspension and appointed Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane as acting national police commissioner. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa suspends police commissioner Masemola pending the outcome of State vs Matlala and 15 others

Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane was appointed as acting national police commissioner

The mining industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects. (Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Procurement mafia a forgotten influence in the mining industry

Also known as the construction mafia, they may even include engineering procurement construction management (EPCM) providers

The CSIR rejects the claim that the CSIR is a “culprit” for using a deviation process to procure certain goods and services.

Response to the M&G: CSIR is not a procurement culprit

The CSIR was depicted as a culprit for purchasing certain goods and services using the deviation process, but such a process is allowed and the word ‘culprit’ is thus wrong

Rands and sense: African Bank chief executive Kennedy Bungane says it is on target to realise its aim of being a broad-based black bank, set out nearly 60 years ago. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Black ownership in banking sector remains low

African Bank’s open listing offers a good example of how direct black ownership in the financial services sector can rise above the stubborn 25% minimum agreed upon by the…

To ensure efficiency the public procurement system need to be streamlined, using sound technical processes and tools to improve procedures.

State’s developmental role puts procurement at the centre of the economy

To ensure efficiency the public procurement system need to be streamlined, using sound technical processes and tools to improve procedures

The treasury’s relaxation of procurement rules will allow the state utility to attend to its ageing power stations far quicker (Paul Botes/M&G)

Eskom claws back control over ‘critical’ procurement

The treasury’s relaxation of procurement rules will allow the state utility to attend to its ageing power stations far quicke

‘Procurement purgatory’: A legal framework in urgent need of reform

The treasury and parliament must urgently revise and table the draft public procurement bill, as a crucial step in tackling South Africa’s procurement crisis

Eskom told Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts that it was targeting suppliers mentioned in the Zondo report

Eskom plans to streamline procurement in light of Zondo reports

‘Post state capture we’ve put in several controls on the procurement and contract management side,’ says power utility procurement executive

The service provider, LNG, has been ordered to pay back the profit earned from the R113.2 million PPE contract

SIU data explorer: The people and firms in the Covid procurement scandal

Search the complete list of referrals made by the Special Investigating Unit against South African firms and individuals

Former Minister of Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba.

How to keep SAA, PetroSA, Eskom away from politicians

The state capture report reveals a governance crisis at state-owned entities. Experts weigh in on how this came to be and what to do about it.

Contracts: Many problems plague the agency responsible for social grants

Five-year drama over Sassa cleaning deal

Welfare agency allegedly bent procurement process to suit a contractor previously found guilty of collusion, and preferred bidder Corporate Cleaning wants damages paid