In 2020, the Limpopo Department of Health accepted an unsolicited proposal from MTN to supply it with 10,000 cellphones during the COVID-19 pandemic at a cost of R10 million.
CAPE TOWN - Mobile telecommunications giant MTN has suffered a major blow to its reputation in the Special Tribunal adjudicating corruption uncovered by the Special Investigating Unit .
In 2020, the department accepted an unsolicited proposal from MTN to supply it with 10,000 cellphones during the COVID-19 pandemic at a cost of R10 million.But in February, the tribunal found in favour of the SIU, that the transaction was not in line with public finance and procurement laws. MTN approached the Special Tribunal to argue its unsolicited proposal to the department could not be considered unlawful, unconstitutional or illegal, and the department could have rejected the offer.
The SIU’s investigation has revealed that 9,588 of the cellphones the department received were not distributed to the intended users.
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