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Transnet has fired two executives over a R33.8 million contract for thousands of disposable straws – with prices inflated from 28 cents to R29 per unit.
This amounts to a nearly 10 000% markup.
Details of the scandal are contained in a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report dated December last year in which the elite graft busters were updating the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on the progress made on Covid-19-related investigations. The SIU launched an investigation into the matter after receiving complaints from a Transnet whistleblower.
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