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Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), the Public Works and Infrastructure Portfolio Commission and the Home Affairs Portfolio Commission will conduct a joint monitoring visit to the Beitbridge border on Saturday morning to assess the construction of the 37 km border fence that was acquired. as part of the interventions to combat Covid-19.
An investigation by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) found irregularities related to the 40 km fencing project, including costs inflated by R14m.
The report also found that Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille had ordered the project to be handled in terms of the Disaster Management Act rather than the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
The PFMA would have allowed a competitive tender before the tender could be issued, a process that was not followed in the project aimed at curbing the illegal movement of people between South Africa and Zimbabwe to contain the spread of Covid-19.
