Mkhwebane ‘inundated’ with Covid-19 complaints
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says her office has seen a rapid surge in the number of complaints of conduct and service failure relating to Covid-19.
The public protector’s office released a statement on Monday.
“We have been consistent in our call on the bureaucracy to exercise prudence when it comes to spending public funds on Covid-19 related goods and services,” Mkhwebane said.
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“We have stressed that deviation from normal procurement processes is not a declaration of an open season to pillage.”
Mkhwebane says hundreds of South Africans have approached the office to complain about government declining their applications for the Covid-19 grant.
“At least 450 people have approached the office to complain about what they deem unreasonable grounds for declining their applications for the R350-a-month special social relief of distress grant.”
She has also decided to probe the so-called ambulance scooters saga in the Eastern Cape, as well as alleged tender irregularities in the awarding of a quarantine camp tender in Mpumalanga and allegations of irregularities in the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) by the provincial Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal.