{"id":156978,"date":"2017-02-13T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=156978"},"modified":"2017-02-21T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:24:45","slug":"sabc-signs-off-on-dozens-of-dodgy-contracts-worth-millions-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/156978\/sabc-signs-off-on-dozens-of-dodgy-contracts-worth-millions-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC signs off on dozens of dodgy contracts worth millions: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SABC’s top brass reportedly signed off on ‘dozens’ of dubious high-value contracts just before Christmas 2016 – including a 5-year retainer for website design that amounted to R5.1 million.<\/p>\n

Several of these contracts seen by Times Media <\/a><\/strong>show that the SABC broke its own procurement rules – as well as those set by the National Treasury – in awarding contracts to companies ‘on the fly’ during the festive season.<\/p>\n

One company, Infonomix, was paid R5.1 million to redesign seven SABC websites as part of a five-year contract. The company charged almost R640,000 VAT, despite not being registered for VAT, the report said.<\/p>\n

The SABC has a long history of signing off on irregular contracts, with a Parliamentary report on the broadcaster revealing that millions of rands worth of contracts had been signed off on by the company’s executives.<\/p>\n

Most of these contracts were approved by controversial executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng and\u00a0acting CEO James Aguma.<\/p>\n

According to the Times, the contracts this time around were signed off by acting chief financial officer Audrey\u00a0Raphela and the SABC’s group executive for commercial enterprises, Tshifhiwa Mulaudzi.<\/p>\n

In an earlier version of this story it was reported that auditing firm SekelaXabiso benefited from the broadcaster\u2019s free-wheeling contract signing. <\/em>
\nSelekaXabiso has pointed out to that this was not the case.<\/em>
\nTimes Live reported that SekelaXabiso started billing the SABC before its nine-month contract worth R9.8 month was signed on December 23. SelekaXabiso pointed out that these were pro-forma invoices as opposed to tax invoices, which were submitted on 18 January.<\/em>
\nWe apologise for carrying the error.<\/em><\/p>\n

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