The amount formed part of R87.3m of goods and services procured without following normal tender processes due to the outbreak of the pandemic. coronavirus lockdown
Johannesburg - Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has revealed that taxpayers have forked out R11.2million for the 184 South Africans repatriated from China and accommodated for 14 days at Protea Hotel Ranch Resort in Limpopo.
Mkhize revealed this in reply to written parliamentary questions from DA MP Philippus van Staden, who had asked about details of tenders connected to the Covid-19 pandemic the department had awarded. “Deviations were made from standards of supply chain management, not for tenders as no tenders were awarded, but for goods and services acquired.”One of these was for the accommodation of South Africans repatriated from China.
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