SCORPIO: Bad vibrations: Zweli Mkhize associate and Digital Vibes in ‘fraudulent’ tender mess

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SCORPIO Bad vibrations: Zweli Mkhize associate and Digital Vibes in ‘fraudulent’ tender mess By Pieter-Louis Myburgh PLMyburgh

Tahera Mather, a long-time associate and former personal spokesperson of health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, was at the centre of a dubious communications contract awarded to Digital Vibes in 2018.

MISA, an entity of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs , awarded the contract to Digital Vibes in August 2018. The Digital Vibes bid submission, however, put forward someone else as the company’s would-be “team leader” for the project.We got in touch with Pillai, who currently works as the head of communications at the Human Sciences Research Council.In fact, Pillai did not do “one stitch of work” for Digital Vibes, she toldShe said Mather, whom she knew from her previous job at Brand South Africa, contacted her in 2018 and asked for her CV and a copy of her master’s degree.

Lobe was searching for employment, and he says he may have given his CV to Mather “in case something came up”. The project leader’s qualifications and experience, for instance, counted for 30 of the 100 available points. It is, therefore, doubtful that Digital Vibes, which had a total bid score of 68.33 out of 100, would have won the contract had Pillai and Lobe not been included.

By the sound of it, MISA will not be taking any action against Digital Vibes, which essentially failed to deliver the “team leader” it promised in its bid documents. On a page titled “Some of our work”, Digital Vibes included a supposed cover of the National Development Agency’s 2016/17 annual report.The questionable examples of previous work included in the Digital Vibes bid documents.

The department’s spokesperson, Shalen Gajadhar, said the Digital Vibes version may have been “an early version which had the language fixed”.

 

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PLMyburgh The absolute lethargy to take remedial steps when people connected to the ANC gets caught out never cease to amaze me. If there is no pressure from 3rd parties the party involved may well receive a further tender.

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