(Bloomberg) South Africa’s national treasury director-general, Dondo Mogajane, has asked all state organs not to advertise new tenders pending court clarification on an appeal filed by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, Johannesburg-based Times Live reported, citing a memo sent Friday.
The National Treasury has issued unlawful instructions to organs of state in what amounts to a deliberate attempt to sidestep the Constitutional Court's recent public procurement judgment. These instructions also threaten to cause virtually all government tenders countrywide to grind to a halt without reason and to expose other tenders that are awarded in terms of unlawful regulations, to judicial review. Sakeliga wrote this morning to the Minister of Finance and National Treasury, demanding .
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David Masondo said recovery was undermined by metros internal supply chain management processes, which were lengthy and tedious.
He said metro contracts were targeted by criminal elements under the disguise of 30% requirements of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act.
Masondo said metros need to create a conducive business environment through more efficient internal business processes for the private sector .
South Africa has little hope of making a meaningful economic recovery in the short term if it cannot get its metropolitan municipalities to run more efficiently and transparently, Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo has said.
Masondo was speaking at a Metropolitan Municipalities Roadshow on the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan in Pretoria on Thursday.