ANC builds bench 'stadium' costing R15 million in Eastern Cape

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ToxicBunny said:
Pretty much every tender has at least a 20% premium for the middle man, and this is assuming everything functions the way it should and there isn't any massive corruption involved... in reality, I would hazard a guess that the average middleman premium in this country is north of 100% for even the smallest little stationary tender.

**EDIT** The middle man percentage aspect, or government business premium isn't new to the ANC though. Even under the NAT government there was price gouging on anything to do with government work.
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If it is anything like the tenders I have seen they are quite sad. First there is a mass of documentation (one lever arch file roughly for R10m to R50m tenders; more above that - boxes of stuff) needed (mostly info already in databases but must be provided again in paper form; SARS, CIDB etc etc). Then comes "quality" criteria; often subjective to weed out those you don't want. Finally comes BEE where tenders under R50m get a 20% premium for full BEE points.

Even run honestly there is about a 60% exclusion rate. Dishonestly done and you can get whatever result you (or the "committee") wants. Mad waste of money.
 
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TelkomUseless said:
Now we understand why Eskom, SAA, SABC , Post office etc is tickets aka moer toe.

And I do believe the ANC will "rule" to Jesus comes. They just promise free **** , grants, unemployment fund ... and they are in for the next 4 years. We got the highest jobless rate... yet people looted for JZ. There is no hope for SA, except if their voters catch a wake up.
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In other words there is no hope.
 
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ForceFate said:
Could this be true?
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Doubt it was R 35m. The "Community Halls" get less spend than the "Sportsfields"

Waiting for some bright spark to post pics of the local R 12m sportsfield and R 9m Park :X3:

Could be R 3.5m... the list he posted isn't very clear
 
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ShaunSA said:
Doubt it was R 35m. The "Community Halls" get less spend than the "Sportsfields"

Waiting for some bright spark to post pics of the local R 12m sportsfield and R 9m Park :X3:

Could be R 3.5m... the list he posted isn't very clear
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Yeah, it wasn't even built by the stadium contractor.
 
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ShaunSA said:
Damn. I really didn't think it would be 35 tbh :oops:

The nice thing is the AG's office would have found ****all wrong. So much for "auditors"
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Cadre network, once something gain negative public sentiment then it is commission time.
 
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ShaunSA said:
Damn. I really didn't think it would be 35 tbh :oops:

The nice thing is the AG's office would have found ****all wrong. So much for "auditors"
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They're often flagged, but municipal managers do nothing about them.

An acquaintance worked as an internal auditor for a municipality. When her reports became a nuisance and her constantly asking for compliance became too much to bear, they created a position that made sure her reports never made it to the top. She quit in frustration and sat at home for few months.
 
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ShaunSA said:
Damn. I really didn't think it would be 35 tbh :oops:

The nice thing is the AG's office would have found ****all wrong. So much for "auditors"
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The paperwork is okay.

It reminds me of the one Chinese syndicate doing bait and switch. You order and 2TB SSD disk, get a plastic CD cover. Paypal checks and there was a shipment. VISA also it.
 
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