The Limpopo Department of Health has found itself in a storm over a controversial coal supply tender for 14 hospitals, as many of the facilities do not use the fuel source.
Stravos Nicolaou, Aspen Pharma’s group senior executive this week criticised poor procurement decisions by government departments saying products, including antiretrovirals (ARVs, could be produced locally to benefit the economy.
The allegations of animal cruelty included claims of shortages of food and water for animals, the animals being kept in poor conditions, as well as the keeping of tortoises without a permit.
Three municipal officials in the Western Cape who colluded to award a personal protective equipment tender at the start of the hard Covid-19 lockdown in a deal with a business owner have been ordered to jointly pay back R400,000.
The Umhlathuze Water Board fraud, corruption and money laundering case, which involves Nonhlanhla Mkhize, the director-general in the KwaZulu-Natal premier’s office, as well as others at the water entity, was moved to the high court.