The department of public works and the defence department are quarrelling over who is to blame for the stalled R1.5-million bid in 2006 to upgrade the 1 Military Hospital at Thaba Tshwane, the main military area of the SANDF, in Pretoria.
are quarrelling over who is to blame for the stalled R1.5-million bid in 2006 to upgrade the 1 Military Hospital at Thaba Tshwane, the main military area of the SANDF, in Pretoria.
Over 14 years, the responsibility of upgrading the facility has been moved from the public works department to the defence department and now to the Development Bank of Southern Africa . According to the public works department, the defence department requested many changes to the scope of work, which could not be accommodated under the contract.
that a further R913 730 313 was needed to upgrade and refurbish 1 Military Hospital. Parliament was told that construction was expected to start in September 2017, with a scheduled completion date of February 2019. Then the hospital’s leaking roof, which was one of the disputed consequences of the initial construction, leaked rainwater on the refurbished Covid-19 floor, damaging some of the expensive equipment.
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