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Director-general Alec Moemi told City Press that, as the accounting officer, he personally verified that all procurement processes were in compliance with the required legal prescripts.

It was further alleged that an unnamed company owned by the ex-husband of the director for supply chain management, Reinette de Villiers, was among those awarded contracts. The whistle-blowers also complained that key personnel in the public transport branch were deliberately sidelined from the process.

“As the accounting officer, I also have a responsibility to check all the processes in this regard, and I have done so,” he stated. Treasury had said that any other company that had stock could be contracted, provided it was registered on the central supplier database, that its prices were comparable with those of the transversal tender and that its tax affairs were in order.

We don’t deny that the process was differentiated, but it was differentiated to benefit the department, not to harm itHe stated that no company had been dismissed and the process had been “done in a transparent manner, openly and without any coercion or prescription that only specific companies could be utilised”.

“Consequently, regarding allegations that there may have been wrongdoing or differentiations of process, we don’t deny that the process was differentiated, but it was differentiated to benefit the department, not to harm it.“We were also able to spread resources and ensure that more companies got something out of the procurement process, instead of having just one company,” explained Moemi.

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