{"id":208752,"date":"2021-11-17T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ters-radio-campaign-contract-found-to-be-unlawful\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:14:24","slug":"ters-radio-campaign-contract-found-to-be-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ters-radio-campaign-contract-found-to-be-unlawful\/","title":{"rendered":"TERS radio campaign contract found to be \u201cunlawful\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/ters3s.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says the Unemployment Insurance Fund\u2019s appointment of five service providers to flight radio awareness campaigns related to the Temporary Employee\/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) &nbsp;was an unlawful failure of duty on the part of the fund\u2019s supply chain management.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by SIU lead investigator into the TERS fund, Johnny le Roux, during the unit\u2019s Parliamentary briefing of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Le Roux said at least R6.1 million was unlawfully spent on these contracts under the guise that the privately owned radio stations were the sole providers of that service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the investigation commenced we found that the five service providers were appointed without following any SCM [supply chain management] process. The appointments were not in compliance with\u2026the Constitution or the PFMA [Public Finance Management Act].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivation for the use of \u2018sole service provider\u2019 amounted to a misrepresentation due to the fact that there were several other commercial radio stations registered with ICASA in the respective provinces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Le Roux added that furthermore, state run broadcaster \u2013 the SABC \u2013 could have flighted the awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne SCM official failed in her duties when she allowed the [Unemployment Insurance Fund\u2019s] marketing and communication department to predetermine the names of the service providers. This failure resulted in irregular expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recommendations, approvals and appointments of these services providers were therefore in contravention of Section 51 (a)(iii) of the PFMA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven officials have been referred for disciplinary action with five receiving written warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Two hearings are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Operating Officer and then UIF Commissioner are also undergoing disciplinary hearings. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says the Unemployment Insurance Fund\u2019s appointment of five service providers to flight radio awareness campaigns related to the Temporary Employee\/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) &nbsp;was an unlawful failure of duty on the part of the fund\u2019s supply chain management. This was revealed by SIU lead investigator into the TERS fund, Johnny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208754,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-208752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ters-radio-campaign-contract-found-to-be-unlawful.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208752","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=208752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}