State supply-chain employees ‘refusing to undergo security’ vetting
State Security Minister Bongani Bongo and his director-general Arthur Fraser have told Parliament that state employees involved in the government’s multi-billion rand procurement space are refusing to undergo security screening. Bongo and Fraser appeared before the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) to explain why thousands of government officials and employees of state-owned companies dealing with supply-chain management had not been vetted as a mechanism to tackle corruption, despite a 2014 Cabinet memo instructing the State Security Agency (SSA) to vet all supply-chain employees. Scopa wanted answers from Bongo after it emerged last week that, at Transnet alone‚ only 7% of about 700 supply-chain management employees had been vetted.
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