The Municipal Public Accounts Committee has, in a report which City Press has seen, recommended that municipal manager Cynthia Nkuna should institute disciplinary action and criminal proceedings must be instituted against those officials who committed financial misconduct. Picture: iStock/ AndreyPopov
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, by December of 2020, only got 171 out of 805 institutions for analysis.
About 33 000 Covid-19 related orders were made across all institutions from 8667 suppliers with R9.4 billion in payments from 444 institutions.
Big spenders on Covid-19 related procurement included provincial education and health departments and the South African Police Service.
Acting Chief Procurement Officer Estelle Setan told Parliament on Wednesday that that office and National Treasury were seized with the work of scrutinising the personal and protective equipment (PPE) procurement of all government departments and entities during the p