The warning bells had been sounding for a while. I blogged about the national lottery a few months' ago. The Business Day reported today that the decision for the tender for the national lottery was set-aside, and the minister was asked to review the procedure. "Judge Willie Seriti found that the process followed by the board was flawed. The board had failed to investigate the shareholding in Gidani and Uthingo."
The Lotteries Act does not permit political parties or political office-bearer to have any direct financial interest in the applicant or a shareholder of the applicant. And both consortia appeared to be in contravention of the Act. I blogged about Gidani, but it appears that the deputy president owned a share of a company that had a stake in Uthingo until quite recently.
I delivered a two day course last week on government procurement, the PPPFA and other legislation and I learned that the procurement people in government have their work cut out for them - because if the PPPFA doesn't get them then the PFMA or MFMA will, and if that ain't enough then watch out for almost every other Act in South Africa.
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