STATE DEALS
Police officers make R11m from SAPS business
Police officers coin it through businesses that supply goods and services to the state
The South African Police Service (SAPS) may have made millionaires of at least three of its officers who have businesses that supply goods and services to it, according to data supplied by Police Minister Fikile Mbalula in a written reply to Parliament. Since the 2014-15 financial year, SAPS has paid more than R11m to businesses owned by SAPS officials, with some firms receiving hundreds of thousands or as much as a million. Various departments have battled to halt employees doing business with the state since President Jacob Zuma signed the Public Administration Management Act in 2014, a law that seeks to ban this practice. The minister is also embroiled in an impropriety jam of his own as it emerged a company that supplied the Department of Sport and Recreation may have paid for a December family holiday while he was still sports minister.
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