Failing upwards: Two companies charged with allegedly defrauding the KwaZulu-Natal premier’s office of R24-million have been appointed to a panel of service providers for the province’s economic development department.
the KwaZulu-Natal premier’s office of R24-million have been appointed to a panel of service providers for the province’s economic development department.
Instead, the two companies are among those set to be appointed by the province’s economic development, tourism and environmental affairs department to its panel of event management service providers for 2021. in a raid in which 20 properties and 40 vehicles were seized. Rose had also benefited to the tune of R1.2-million from the scam.
According to newspaper adverts placed by the department last month as part of the process to allow appeals from unsuccessful bidders, the two are part of the department’s panel of service providers to provide “professional event management services”.Nto’s Catering has been appointed as a category A service provider; PMG Events was given category B status.
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