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Treasury stalks public servants’ dodgy payouts
Out of the 14,000 ‘dead’ public servants, the office discovers the top 25 received R500m in state orders
The Treasury wants about 25 government employees who scored R500m from the state in 2016 to pay back the money. In April 2016, the office of the chief procurement officer at the Treasury consolidated the government’s supplier database. In this clean-up process, the office discovered that 12,000 dead people were registered to do business with the state, while another 14,000 were in the employ of the government. Acting chief procurement officer Schalk Human explained in an interview with Business Day that before the information was consolidated suppliers had to register on 160 departments’ databases. The state had now migrated from a paper-based system to an electronic one. Human said that his office was working hand in hand with the Department of Public Service and Administration, specifically its ethics unit, which would run disciplinary hearings against the implicated employees that would possibly result in their dismissals. Out of the 14,000 public servants, the office discovered ...
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