Red Roses Africa (Pty) Ltd, A company that sold hand sanitiser to the SAPS for R515-million in the early days of Covid-19 has been referred to the Competition Tribunal after the Competition Commission found it had made a gross mark-up of 236% on the sale. Red Roses Africa has also now been refe.
SIU investigations have uncovered that hand sanitiser sold at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to SAPS at a cost of R5,400.05 per 25 litres, including costs of ‘airfreight, customs, clearance and VAT’, was in fact not sourced from China… but instead round the corner at Dis-Chem at a mark-up.