procurement

The specified offences investigated under the office's mandate relate to procurement fraud, contraventions of PFMA, siphoning of monies, theft, financial crime including money laundering, and the vetting and appointment processes associated with capturing those systems and processes.

“It was contraventions of PFMA and of fraud, where the siphoning of the monies and or the, that was the theft and the financial crime with the money laundering aspect and where issues of the vetting and the appointments, it was in the way that it was couched, the capture of those systems and processes.”

General Khan receives insider information from someone in Procurement, probably Mr Fani, about upcoming bid adjudication meetings.

“General Khan got this from somebody inside Procurement, probably Mr Fani, saying that they are now going to be adjudicating the bid.”

Budget increases for the TMPD require a motivation and approval by Divisional Heads within Supply Chain Management and Procurement, specifically Cain Mpofu and Vusi.

“It is a delegated function that is delegated to the Divisional Head within Supply Chain Management and the Procurement, so it would have been Cain as well as Vusi.”

All procurement transactions from 0 to 750 were done online, and the process had been seamlessly migrated, enabling evaluations, conclusions and adjudications online.

“Which gives guidance that all procurement from 0 to 750 were done online. The process had been seamlessly migrated, and all procurement was effectively evaluated, concluded and adjudicated online.”

Due to insufficient funds, the City of Tshwane restricted probity assurance to procurements of R20 million and above in the 2026 financial year because of the complexity and legal risk of bids exceeding that threshold.

“as a result of insufficient funds, we have restricted that in this financial year to any procurement with 20 million and above, reason being, Chair, the complexity and the technical nature of any bid in excess to R20 million and the risk assessment that we have seen over the past that many bids over that threshold are always subject to litigation.”