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Service providers to repay R25m in Gauteng COVID-19 school tender case.

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The Gauteng Department of Education is under scrutiny after service providers linked to controversial COVID-19 school sanitisation contracts agreed to pay back R25 million to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), following findings that the procurement process was irregular and not cost-effective.
21 May English South Africa News

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