THE Mahikeng High Court has declared unlawful and set aside a R44m tender awarded by the North West Department of Public Works and Roads for constructing a road at Mmakaunyane village outside Tshwane.  African Times reported last month that the department’s adjudication committee, led by Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Peter Modika, had manipulated tender processes to favour MM Industries, which did not meet the criteria.  The controversial contract signed by the head of the department, Moss Kgantsi, in January this…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has weighed in on the Ndhuna Civil Engineering Services’ controversial R134 million Khunotswana contract. It has requested all documents related to the tender as part of a planned investigation into fraud and corruption in the North West.  In a letter sent to Vuisile Joba Dliso, the chairperson of the North West Legislature’s Provincial Public Accounts Committee (PPAC), the SIU in the province requested copies of all records submitted to the committee by the North West…

The North West Department of Public Works and Roads was advised to terminate a R47 million awarded to a contractor who had missed schedules before it ballooned to R79 million.  This was after the contractor, Khosi Vuyo Logistics, submitted a “faulty” construction programme to the consulting engineers in February this year relating to the refurbishment of the Nelson Mandela Drive in Mahikeng.  According to a letter seen by African Times, The Bigen Group, a consulting engineering company which managed the…

The contractor who abandoned projects in North West after pocketing R25 million pleaded poverty while driving to meetings and construction sites in new luxury cars, sources said. According to government officials, civil engineers and business associates, businessman Oberon Sungulani Matsuvuki rocked up for meetings with officials and civil engineers in expensive cars but continued to claim he had no money to complete projects.  This included a dark blue Lamborghini. African Times has been reliably informed that Matsuvuki’s company, Ndhuna Civil…

North West Public Works and Roads MEC Gaoage Molapisi has been accused of orchestrating a plot to white-wash the R134 million Ndhuna Civil Engineering Service report and clear the contractor and officials at the centre of the alleged tender fraud and corruption.  Sources, including civil servants, engineers and businessmen, said Molapisi’s decision to order an internal probe rather than an independent one was part of a strategy to clear Ndhuna’s Oberon Matsuvuki, head of the department Moss Kgantsi and chief…