
The Special Tribunal has set aside an R85.7 million tender awarded for the construction of an 8km concrete wall between South Africa and Mozambique, and ordered the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport to take disciplinary action against the officials involved in the procurement process.
The successful bidder, a joint venture between ISF Construction Services and Shula Constructions, must declare its profits from the illegal contract and repay them to the department.
The joint venture did not complete the work on the wall, yet was paid about R84.3 million by the department, which then issued a fresh tender to…
Apartheid Era: The apartheid system of institutionalized racial segregation and
discrimination was officially in place from 1948 until the early 1990s.

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An Afrikaans lady and an English lady are chatting in their yard. After a while, a dog comes and takes a kak on the lawn. The Afrikaans lady points to the dog and says “Kyk!” The English replies “That’s not cake, that’s shit”