Johannesburg - The Gauteng Sports, Arts and Culture Department paid two of its “stakeholders'' an amount of more than R16.5 million to distribute Covid-19 relief funds worth R13.2m to more than 2 000 artists and athletes in the province.
Hlophe confirmed that her department had set aside R13.2m which was used to pay the recipients since November last year. According to Hlophe, the payout of R13.2m was made from November until March this year. “A bidding process was not followed. These service providers were identified as sector stakeholders,” Hlophe said.This has outraged Chabalala, who now wants the provincial government to conduct a forensic investigation into funds paid to the entities.
This time at a loss for words
Is die ander geld in hul gatsak gedruk en waarom net swart mense, ons almal bloei rooi maak nie saak watse kleur ons vel is nie
typical MYANC msunu doing msunu things,karma has no expiration date msunus
We are fucked this ANC is just useless
SokhuluSA Fake news, shame on you IOL for wanting to impress DA that made up this story. I listened to the MEC radio interview this morning, she said service providers were paid 10% of this amount for administration fees. Your factional reporting is misleading SAns
At some point 'shocking' becomes an understatement. I am no procurement specialist, but something does not add up here. Sorry!!
It's fake news.....not surprised that IOL would job to this
I would only presume this department doesn't have Finance and Procurement function to do this job. I do understand that reviewing application forms can take long especially if it's being processed by Gov employees but spending 16.5m is a bit stretched just to screen applicants
This people are eating with no shame
These artists we never meant to get this money 😂😂😂
Amaqabane kaTambo madoda. Kubo khongolose✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Middleman to distribute funds whereas government departments have infrastructure to do that😳.Time to review govt agencies that pays employees doing extra job in their programmes because they’re also paid salaries via persal system thedpsa TreasuryRSA
When cost of sales is more than revenue.....why do it?
What? I don't understand this statement
My wife passed away while I was unemployed looking for work. I'm really struggling to make ends meet for my daughter and I right now. I'm asking for any food parcel or electricity. We haven't had anything to eat in two days now and I'm desperate 🙏💔