Embattled North West Public Works and Roads HOD Moss Kgantsi is under siege from heavily armed service providers who are baying for his blood over alleged meddling in procurement processes. According to sources and eyewitnesses who spoke anonymously, a group of contractors stormed the department’s provincial headquarters in Mahikeng on more than one occasion this week.  They demanded an audience with Kgantsi about maintenance tenders, especially grass-cutting contracts.  The aggrieved group accused him of using the province’s Expanded Public Works…

North West farmers are up in arms against Ndhuna Civil Engineering Services, saying the controversial company has directed traffic onto private property without permission to avoid building a bypass for Khunotswana motorists as required by the law. They say the company’s director, Oberon Matsuvuki and the North West Department of Public Works and Roads have failed to consult them about the matter and “arrogantly” dismissed their concerns.  According to Naude Pienaar, Agri North-West’s general manager and chairman of the Klippan…

The North West Department of Public Works and Roads’ bid adjudication committee, chaired by Chief Financial Officer Peter Modika, tampered with procurement processes and changed the rules halfway through to benefit a preferred contractor that had no track record.   According to the complete tender record obtained by African Times, the committee changed functionality criteria to pave the way for MM Industries Pty (Ltd) to win a R44 million contract in January this year. The tender was for the patching…