{"id":166062,"date":"2020-09-17T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:38:19","slug":"r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"R2.5 billion irregular expenditure on Gauteng Health security contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts\/\">R2.5 billion irregular expenditure on Gauteng Health security contracts<\/a>: <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"simple-love-fix\" data-id=\"1739\" value=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng Health Department has spent R2.56 billion on irregularly awarded hospital security contracts that were then irregularly extended on a month-to-month basis for four years.<\/p>\n<p>This is revealed by Acting Health MEC Jacob Mamabolo in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mamabolo, the contracts of 73 security companies that were appointed in October 2014 for a two-year period were extended month by month to the present day at a total cost of R2.56 billion for the four year extension.<\/p>\n<p>This is all irregular expenditure which happened even though criminal charges were laid against the chairperson of the bid evaluation committee that first awarded the security contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The Auditor-General warned the Department two years ago about the irregular extension of contracts, but nothing was done to fix this.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital security contracts are notorious for corruption and gross overcharging. New contracts should have been awarded long ago, but it probably suited certain interests to keep extending them.<\/p>\n<p>Suspended Health MEC Bandile Masuku cannot escape accountability for allowing these contracts to continue at great cost.<\/p>\n<p>We need better security at a more reasonable cost in view of recent disturbing security incidents at hospitals in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Bloom MPL<\/strong><br \/> <em>DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R2.5 billion irregular expenditure on Gauteng Health security contracts: Dear Johannesburg The Gauteng Health Department has spent R2.56 billion on irregularly awarded hospital security contracts that were then irregularly extended on a month-to-month basis for four years. This is revealed by Acting Health MEC Jacob Mamabolo in a written reply to my questions in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[5586,3804,1143,4442,140,9081,38832,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-166062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-gauteng","8":"tag-billion","9":"tag-contracts","10":"tag-expenditure","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-irregular","13":"tag-r2-5","14":"tag-security","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}