The government may centralise procurement of Covid-19 personal protection equipment as a measure to curb fraud and corruption
Finance minister Tito Mboweni told parliament on Wednesday that in light of reports of tender fraud, particularly related to PPE, he instructed National Treasury officials to find ways to curb graft.
“One of the things we were thinking about is to centrally purchase some of the equipment required given the capacity issues between ourselves and the national department of health,” he said. In the same breath, Mboweni said it was incorrect that every contract or tender issued was equivalent to corruption.
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