Municipality spent R38 million on call centre "shack"
A municipality in the North West spent R38 million on a small prefabricated building in Vryburg, which it said is being used as its new call centre, City Press reports.
Sources at the municipality who have raised red flags about the project...
Court rules police's cellular contract with MTN unlawful
The High Court in Pretoria has declared the South African Police Services' R20-million-a-month contract for cellular services with MTN unlawful, Rapport reports.
The court heard an application from Vodacom to have the contract reviewed...
Telkom threatens to cut off Sapo over R225-million bill
Telkom this week threatened to cut off communications services to the South African Post Office (Sapo) over an outstanding debt of over R225 million, Sunday Times reports.
Sapo CEO Nomkhita Mona warned Telkom's enterprise service division...
Government's tender website has been down for months
The image a few paragraphs down is what you currently see when you go to the National Treasury’s tender website. It’s been this way since March.
When trying to make sense of a story that involved a newly issued tender, we became frustrated...
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I recently applied for a relatively big tender at least for me and I am quite optimistic that I will win the bid, now my problem will be the financing of the working capital I would need at least 800k to execute the project, my question here is are there any companies / government...
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Just wanted to find out after submitting a quote to a government department and after being awarded the contract can a supplier supply generic cartridges instead of the original cartridge, as the quotation request did not clearly specify if they needed generic or original.
Can I be...
In just five years, Eskom has spent at least R1 billion of taxpayers’ money on a labour consultancy, which made the ailing power giant pay double for contractors.
The consultancy, Khum-BIE, has now taken Eskom to the South Gauteng High Court to fight for money it’s owed.
Its directors are...
We’re not keeping secrets: Sanral
Sanral says its application to the Western Cape High Court has nothing to do with enacting the so-called “secrecy bill”, but rather to protect the confidentiality of in-process tenders.
The City of Cape Town has awarded the tender to provide vehicles for its extended MyCiTi bus routes to Volvo SA, a city official said on Wednesday.
Volvo SA would provide 40 buses for the N2 express routes at a cost of R180 million, said transport mayoral committee member Brett Herron.
He...
A Western Cape man has been convicted of defrauding the Overstrand Municipality of R3 million by submitting false quotations to secure tenders, it was reported on Wednesday.
Hermanus Mostert was convicted of 285 counts of fraud by the Hermanus Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, The Cape Argus...
Tenders reportedly worth R900 million, awarded to allies of expelled ANCYL president Julius Malema, will be re-advertised, the Limpopo department of human settlements said on Wednesday.
The department had been advised, rather than ordered, to re-advertise the contracts for the construction of...
The fraud and corruption case against expelled ANC youth league leader Julius Malema and four others was postponed in the Polokwane High Court on Tuesday morning.
Magistrate Janine Ungerer ruled the matter would resume on June 20, when a High Court date for their trial would be set.
Malema...