The response of our governments to Covid-19 has remained under scrutiny. The focus has shifted a little from the health response to the looting that has gone on with the purchasing of PPE and other services.
The Western Cape and City of Cape Town governments also have many questions to answer.
The City of Cape Town's disastrous and inhumane Strandfontein Camp operated for 6 weeks and cost the people of this city a whopping R53 million. Included in that R53 million is R44 million for tent hire. That is obscene.
For R53 million the City could have bought a building and renovated it to create a permanent shelter solution for homeless people. Instead they spent R53 million for a temporary camp on a cold wet field from which homeless people ran away.
I have submitted the evidence gathered to date to the A-G, and asked the SIU to investigate this procurement under the President's special Covid-19 proclamation. We must know who benefitted and if the rumours that the contracts went to well-known gang-lords are true. Wasteful expenditure must be recovered
Then there is the Western Cape Education Department's tenders for PPE. A single supplier got 99.8% of all PPE spending.
That supplier is a close corporation called Masiqhame Trading 1057 – clearly a shelf company.
It has absolutely no digital presence, no website and no business address. It has no obvious track-record in the supply of medical equipment and it appears to operate out of a residential address in Edgemead.
Who is Masiqhame Trading 1057? How did they get nearly 100% of the all the Education Department's spend and earn themselves a whopping R111,8 million in 3 months?
h the ANC and the DA must reveal their Covidpreneurs and the money must come back to the taxpayers.
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