EASTERN CAPE: DIRTY BUSINESS: Buhle Waste says government being used to fight corporate battles as SIU probes contracts

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Buhle Waste, currently holding a multimillion-rand contract for high-risk medical waste management for the Eastern Cape Department of Health, has welcomed a probe by the Special Investigating Unit as it believes the government is being used to fight ...

reported in 2019 that the Mpumalanga contract had been awarded to Buhle in November 2015 for a three-year period until November 2018, and thereafter extended on a month-to-month basis. In other words, KZN is piggybacking on yet another contract that is on a month-to-month extension.

In the inquiry, Mbengashe claimed that incorrect evidence was placed before the Special Tribunal by the SIU. “It is important that the Special Investigating Unit undertakes the work to make sure that everything that the Department of Health is doing is above board. They are there to see that everything is procedurally correct and they can check if there is any malfeasance — we hope that they can conclude that matter speedily,” Sekete said.

“We are constantly getting audited and constantly getting inspections. It is important work that these government departments are doing,” he said.“It is the nature of the business. You have to have a thick skin. As long as we can sleep at night,” Sekete said.

 

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