President Cyril Ramaphosa says the biggest regret of his term in office was not anticipating the rampant corruption resulting from procuring Covid-19 personal protective equipment.
PPE procurement should have been centralised similarly to how government purchased vaccines, Ramaphosa said on Saturday at an ANC manifesto review media engagement in Johannesburg.
"What I am not proud of is the way we did not anticipate that there would be corruption as we dispersed personal protective equipment. That depressed me, and I paused for a while and said we should not have centralised the distribution of PPE as we did with vaccines. With vaccines, many companies kept coming saying we can get you vaccines, and we refused. We said no, only the state is going to do it," Ramaphosa said.
He was talking to the media about the ANC's election campaign rollout, which begins on Sunday with a manifesto review of its 2019 promises. Ramaphosa said the government had spent nearly R1 billion financing the commission, proving they had to implement its recommendations. The president commented in a room full of fellow ANC members, including ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe and deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane. Both were implicated heavily in the commission's report."Many people allege that we are not implementing those recommendations.
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