Gauteng health department 'worst' for non-payment, owes R1.7bn

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Gauteng's health department is the worst in the province when it comes to non-payment of suppliers, with 987 businesses owed a combined R1.9bn dating back to 2014.

This was revealed in the legislature by health MEC Bandile Masuku in reply to questions by DA MPL Jack Bloom.

Masuku said 236 businesses which provided services to the department two years ago were owed R1.3bn.

In addition, R103m was due to 128 service providers for work done three years ago, and close to R300m was owed to more than 500 companies for services provided in 2018.

Why does the department owe so much money to service providers?

More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/politic...-department-worst-for-non-payment-owes-r17bn/

 

[RyanPCMR]

Ineffective supply chain management.

 

[Stokstert]

Ineffective supply chain management.

FIFY

No supply chain management at all, the normal condition were the ANC is in charge. Incapable bunch.

 

[LaraC]

Looking at the numbers it would seem that all the accounts are worth more than a million rand.

Must be very lucrative doing business with the health department if overdue amounts are not recovered.

 

[ForceFate]

Looking at the numbers it would seem that all the accounts are worth more than a million rand.

Must be very lucrative doing business with the health department if overdue amounts are not recovered.

Not exactly that way.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Can't pay back the money when the supplying company doesn't exist anymore. Modern problems require modern solutions, its basically free real estate.

 

[Tokolotshe]

Looking at the numbers it would seem that all the accounts are worth more than a million rand.

Must be very lucrative doing business with the health department if overdue amounts are not recovered.

As for lucrative, we fired them as a client. We left stuff there with them, wrote it off, with instructions to them: 'Enjoy it, just don't phone us again. Ever. Please, never!'

Sixpence worth of business, a shillings worth of trouble.

The phrase piss-up in a brewery jumps to mind ...