The Special Investigating Unit has been looking into alleged corruption in the R2.4 billion KwaZulu-Natal school nutrition programme debacle since February.
, first drew the SIU’s attention earlier this year after a whistleblower tipped the unit off about the contract.
The tender has been scrapped by the department, according to ANC provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, but Fraser has remained silent on the matter, despite increasing pressure on her from within the party and government over the fiasco. Gosai said the allegations regarding the irregular tender award — for three years with an option to extend by another two — required clarity from the SIU’s case assessment committee.
Mtolo said the ANC would ask the province’s Ithala Development Finance Corporation to assist local level service providers with credit facilities so that they would be able to resume school feeding at local level. Pacina’s chief executive, Sean Brimacombe, has historical links with the Spar group, and insiders say he and Zungu had planned to leverage this in using the retailer’s stores, warehouses and logistics capacity to meet the conditions of the tender.
“We have made it clear that at the moment our supply and assistance cannot currently meet the scope of the full tender,” he said.
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