Action has been taken over the Beitbridge border post fence fiasco, according to Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille. Investigations proved that the multi-million rand fence was ineffective at preventing illegal border crossings.
I can report some good progress, the Special Investigating Unit through the Tribunal has been able to demand all the money back that we have put into the contract,” she said. As you will recall, the value of the project was about R37-million, so far we have paid R21-million.
Meanwhile, SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago says money used on the Beitbridge border fence will be recovered and given back to the department of public works and infrastructure.
You will remember that when this process started we investigated and then we found that it was irregular,” he said. We then started a process of applying to the tribunal to recover the money, when the process started, these companies when they realised that we are on to them, they now put a case against the tribunal questioning whether the tribunal has the right to do that to them.
Source: eNCA
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