Call for probe after Western Cape spent R47m on a luxury hotel as a quarantine site

Good Party’s Brett Heron said the province’s procurement report showed that the department had no pricing strategy for accommodation services.“When I engaged with communities and community health care workers on the Cape Flats they complained that Covid-19 positive people were not offered alternative accommodation and were expected to quarantine in their own homes which were overwhelmingly inappropriate or unsuitable for isolating given the overcrowded conditions.

The ANC’s provincial spokesperson for transport and public works Lulama Mvimbi said: “This report shows patterns that clearly reveal the DA’s discriminatory expenditure where they spent huge amounts of money on affluent areas. “Once we formally receive this report we need to go deeper into it. There is still much to be revealed.”

In his report Makwetu highlighted how the large expenditure on privately owned facilities would not benefit the department in the longer run.

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