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.
A supplier that charged the South African Police Service R 4 700 each for 90 000 hand sanitiser containers has been referred to the Competition Tribunal for excessive pricing.
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.