{"id":8103,"date":"2013-07-30T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2013-07-30T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:03:02","slug":"rogue-firms-got-r900m-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8103","title":{"rendered":"Rogue firms got R900m contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8106\" alt=\"corruption2\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>The Limpopo Human Settlements Department has awarded contracts worth R900 million to companies with invalid tax-clearance certificates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is according to a forensic investigation commissioned by the provincial Treasury Department into multimillion-rand low-cost housing projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the beneficiaries in the controversial procurement were business associates of former premier Cassel Mathale and expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time, former human settlements MEC Clifford Motsepe denied any wrongdoing. But in April, the provincial treasury instructed that the contracts must be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Star has not seen a full report by the Joburg-based law firm Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, which was commissioned to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former treasury MEC David Masondo instructed Motsepe to cancel the contracts, saying the procurement process was \u201cseriously flawed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggested that Human Settlements officials who processed the procurement were incompetent and ordered that an investigation be launched against department head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Public Protector and the Public Service Commission are also investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Premier Mathale, who was recently told to resign, claims to have done nothing unlawful. &#8211; The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limpopo Human Settlements Department has awarded contracts worth R900 million to companies with invalid tax-clearance certificates. This is according to a forensic investigation commissioned by the provincial Treasury Department into multimillion-rand low-cost housing projects. Some of the beneficiaries in the controversial procurement were business associates of former premier Cassel Mathale and expelled ANC Youth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rogue firms got R900m contracts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[432,4472,219,23,436,4471],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc-youth-league","tag-cassel-mathale","tag-corruption","tag-julius-malema","tag-limpopo","tag-limpopo-human-settlements-department"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/corruption2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}