The newly-elected ANC Youth League provincial leadership wants the Amathole District Municipality (ADM) to make public all documents used in the awarding of a R631-million tender to the Siyenza Group.
The call comes after a Saturday Dispatch probe into the awarding of the sanitation tender to the Bongani Mpeluza-owned Siyenza Group.
Siyenza Group has been linked to Jacob Zuma’s son-in-law Lonwabo Sambudla, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu’s son Boitumelo Itholeng and Gauteng high-flyer businessman Vuyani Gaga. Siyenza Group has subcontracted some of its work to a company owned by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe’s wife, Nolwandle. Their son Buyambo also works for her company.
The contract was to build thousands of toilets for villages in the rural Eastern Cape municipality. ANCYL spokesman Ayongezwa Lungisa said yesterday the ADM must supply the public with all the documentation on the tender. “The municipal manager ... must show the public documents of the company because the moment he does this there will not be anymore noise about this.”
Last month the Saturday Dispatch reported how Siyenza Group was awarded the project without it going to tender. Subsequently, ADM municipal manager Chris Magwangqana defended the appointment of Siyenza Group. He said ADM had invoked Regulation 32 of the supply chain management regulations, which allowed it to procure services used by another organ of state without going to tender.
However, the Saturday Dispatch last week reported that the regulation might have been inappropriately used as its conditions do not allow for an organ of state to procure services under a contract secured by another organ of state if the contract is bigger in magnitude and price.
The Saturday Dispatch also reported that Siyenza Group was not in the database of the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission or the Construction Industry Development Board. — siphem@dispatch.co.za
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The call comes after a Saturday Dispatch probe into the awarding of the sanitation tender to the Bongani Mpeluza-owned Siyenza Group.
Siyenza Group has been linked to Jacob Zuma’s son-in-law Lonwabo Sambudla, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu’s son Boitumelo Itholeng and Gauteng high-flyer businessman Vuyani Gaga. Siyenza Group has subcontracted some of its work to a company owned by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe’s wife, Nolwandle. Their son Buyambo also works for her company.
The contract was to build thousands of toilets for villages in the rural Eastern Cape municipality. ANCYL spokesman Ayongezwa Lungisa said yesterday the ADM must supply the public with all the documentation on the tender. “The municipal manager ... must show the public documents of the company because the moment he does this there will not be anymore noise about this.”
Last month the Saturday Dispatch reported how Siyenza Group was awarded the project without it going to tender. Subsequently, ADM municipal manager Chris Magwangqana defended the appointment of Siyenza Group. He said ADM had invoked Regulation 32 of the supply chain management regulations, which allowed it to procure services used by another organ of state without going to tender.
However, the Saturday Dispatch last week reported that the regulation might have been inappropriately used as its conditions do not allow for an organ of state to procure services under a contract secured by another organ of state if the contract is bigger in magnitude and price.
The Saturday Dispatch also reported that Siyenza Group was not in the database of the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission or the Construction Industry Development Board. — siphem@dispatch.co.za
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