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Durban – KZN Prime Minister Sihle Zikalala has released the names, identity numbers, and racial teams of business managers who have benefited from provincial spending of more than R2 billion from Covid-19.
Five won 833. 8 million rands, or 41. 6% of the total amount.
Among the five companies, GVK-Siya Zama Building Contractors, whose director is Nasser Mogamat Gamieldien, awarded a contract worth 311. 6 million rands, followed by RGZ Projects owned by Gugulethu Reginald Zondo, which won 163. 7 million rand.
Logan Medical and Surgical, whose owner and director is indexed as Vimla Naidoo, earned 122 million rand, with Leomat JJS JV, owned and controlled through Arnaldo Corbella, earning 121. 9 million rand, while Enza Construction, of which Mark Rowan Crowie is registered as director. , received R114. 6m.
The most recent report did not imply whether any of the corporations or Americans were being investigated on allegations of corruption or valuable fraud, accusations that included the Covid-19 emergency expenses of South Africa and those in the province.
Zikalala said the peak spending went to “African-owned companies,” which won contracts for 810. 2 million rands, spread across 235 companies.
India accounted for 29. 52%. Communities of color and Asians gained 0. 51% and 0. 46% respectively.
17. 7 million rands, or 0. 84% of Covid-19’s spending, went to corporations for which the government had no details, Admitted Zikalala, adding that the factor is deepening.
Other figures discussed included that 35%, or 687 million rands, were spent on majority-owned corporations of women, while 15%, or 310 million rands, were spent on majority-owned corporations through other young people (35 years or younger).
“We need to reiterate, as we did with Covid-19’s first public procurement disclosure report, this report is not intended to make a judgment about the process, or any company that has been awarded a contract,” Zikalala said.
“We only talk about data to be responsible and transparent with our employees. If we discover, at a later stage, that there is something adverse about awarding one of the contracts, we will not hesitate to act.
Zikalala would not be asked why the public deserves it in the most recent anti-corruption and accountability campaign, as this is not the first time investigations have been conducted on allegations of corruption and reports that have not been followed are published.
It stated that the government was not in a position to provide the same main points as those contained in the latest report for municipalities because they used other reporting systems. The National Treasury streamlined report formats that would allow the principal points of the director and owners to be extracted, he said.
“I’ll have to insist that we do it on our own. We have not been coerced or pushed by any circumstance. We are only motivated by the preference to honor the contract we have with the other people in this province. “
The Special Investigation Unit (IUS) is examining 6 five 8 contracts across the country, worth just over five billion rands. At KZN, the SIU demonstrated that it continues to:
1. 57 contracts for non-public protective devices (IPDs) in the provincial branch of schooling 492. 6 million rand.
2. Four contracts to purchase blankets through the Department of Social Development (DSD) 22. 4 million rand.
3. 18 contracts to acquire PPE through the Ministry of Social Development worth 21. 2 million rand. Investigations are expected to be completed within 3 months.
Lifestyle audits
Zikalala also addressed the much-acclaimed lifestyle audits that want to be conducted in the province, as it did with the publication of the first report.
The State Security Agency and Sars were contacted, he said, to assist with the audit of executive board members, senior government officials, and all source chain managers.
The ongoing “process,” Zikalala said, but did not provide a date.
Reaction
Opposition parties said that the new trend towards accountability and transparency was not “authentic. “
The IFP and the district attorney said That Zikalala refrained from submitting the reports to the Office of the Committee of the First Portfolio of the provincial legislature, where they may be further questioned, but that it sought to disseminate them to the media.
Conflicting political parties in Zikalala told The Mercury that there was also inadequate monitoring to hold defendants accountable for unduly receiving the public budget or for acquitting those accused of irregularities.
For example, the largest current beneficiary of Covid-19 contracts, RGZ Projects, has contracts worth 163. 7 million rand with the provincial fitness branch for the modernization and amendment of GJ Crookes Hospital in Scottburgh.
In a 2010 forensic report carried out through the municipality of eThekwini, known as the Ngubane Report, the company accused the company of irregularities in housing contracts.
To explain the effects of the accusations, which are now more than a decade old, The Mercury sent detailed questions last week to the eThekwini subway and KZN’s Ministry of Health (as a contractor, asking questions about due diligence).
They both responded.
However, Reginald Zondo of RGZ Projects spoke to The Mercury.
He stated that he had never been accused of irregularity or questioned by an interested party in the drafting of the Ngubane report, and that he had not been contacted through other investigators after the publication of the report.
In the report, the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs oversaw, and in February 2012 published the Manase report, which investigated widespread corruption in the eThekwini subway.
Existing companies, senior executives and advisors.
The report, among its many findings, provided evidence that former eThekwini Mayor Obed Mlaba had illegally influenced an R3bn tender involving an energy recovery sale at the Bisasar Road landfill in Clare Hills.
It is understood that many of those publicly affected have never been subjected to further investigation or public authorization.
IFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa said Zikalala and his management should “give the impression” that they were dealing with corruption.
“They will soon return to their old ways,” he said. “Nothing that the prime minister has revealed to the media over the past month has been presented to the portfolio committee.
“Neglect your duty to be accountable to the legislature. “
Hlabisa said the ANC could not be “really decisive against corruption” if it simply does not eliminate MPL and former eThekwini Zandile Gumede alcalde from the legislature while facing criminal fees for their alleged participation in an R430m Durban Solid Waste tender.
Zwakele Mncwango, who heads the DA in the province, said Zikalala will be “responsible to the portfolio committee” where “specific questions” can be asked.
“The Prime Minister must lie to the public. In the highest cases, when it comes to a comrade concerned about corruption, the ANC will cover them,” he said.
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