The Eastern Cape education department seemingly bungled the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) to schools after issuing a list that was riddled with inaccuracies. The list was given to the provincial legislature.
The blunders come amid calls for the government to act against those implicated in the country's PPE procurement scandal.
The list was e-mailed to the provincial legislature's committee on education on August 19 and tabled the next day.after calling some of the companies that were awarded contracts. Lulama Jakavula, director of Yolo Empire, said that she felt"hard done by" in not being awarded the contract for R5.8m. The nine provincial education departments spent R1.7bn on PPE. The biggest expenditures were in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal .
The company, which was awarded a three-year contract in 2017 to supply stationery to the Western Cape education department and its district offices and schools, was awarded nearly R111.8m for PPE.Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schafer's spokesperson, Kerry Mauchline, said that the department had two existing contracts with Masiqhame for cleaning, gardening, electrical supplies and stationery.
"The only thing the department has managed to do is squander money to make Covid-19 tenderpreneurs millionaires."
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