Johannesburg - A Limpopo man, who has been listed as one of the beneficiaries of the R932 million personal protective equipment contracts, says his name may have been used to defraud the government.
The liquor trader, from Mahwelereng township near Mokopane, said he neither received any purchase order nor submitted a quotation to supply and deliver PPE to the Limpopo government. We also previously reported that some of the hand-picked beneficiaries included the daughter of provincial ANC deputy chairperson Florence Radzilani, the wife of deputy director in Premier Stan Mathabatha’s Office, Eddie Managa, and the daughter of former Sports MEC Onicca Moloi, who is a close friend of Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba.
“The person then called again and said, ‘why are you ignoring me. I sent you the list and you are not saying anything. I said I can’t see the name. I checked again and saw Muthahidini General Trading, which is my company. And the director is MF Nesengani. Obviously it’s me.They said I have already been paid R1.2m. I didn’t even get an order. I got nothing. My bank account is empty. I just put in R100 every month so that the bank does not shut it down. That money never reached my account.
The businessman said while he was shocked, he did not take it up with the department because he felt he would be taken from pillar to post. “The department has further submitted to Treasury the entire list of bidders, contracts, those who have managed to deliver as per their orders, those who have been paid and also the amounts paid to bidders. Treasury has equally submitted the same information to the Special Investigating Unit. The department therefore feels that it will be incorrect to start responding to each and every individual allegation as raised below when all these matters are already being investigated by the SIU.
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