By Mike Smith
17th of March 2011
Look at how the ANC in the Eastern Cape is stealing money supposed to help sick people at hospitals.
The ANC cares NOTHING for the poor. They care nothing for the sick or the education of the children…They are only in it for themselves. Stealing as much as they can.
Nearly R1bn vanishes from EC Health coffers!
16 March 2011
Eddie Botha
Source: Dispatch
Nearly R1 billion vanished from the Eastern Cape Department of Health coffers in just 18 months as rampant abuse of resources reached staggering new heights.
Health officials opened up on Tuesday at a media conference in East London and admitted that corruption had cost the department R800million.
“This is endemic and involves multiple people,” said superintendent-general Siva Pillay.
Giving insight into a whirlpool of corruption within his department, Pillay revealed that about 12 000 of the department’s 47 000 staff members in the province had tenders with the provincial administration.
At the moment 40 investigations were under way to uncover the rot.
Pillay said it was a huge problem when appointments within the department became political.
“And it’s not just one…there is a chain of (such) people.”
He said the irregularities involving the missing R800m spanned 18 months up to June last year.
Pillay said a risk project conducted by the department to identify the anomalies in the supply chain databases (records about tenders) had revealed:
- In 8000 instances, companies had been recorded more than once on the department’s databases;
- In 165 cases various suppliers used the same telephone numbers;
- There were almost 5000 records which showed the same physical address for different suppliers; and
- In almost 1000 cases different suppliers had the same postal addresses.
“We have, in 1511 cases, identified various companies with the same banking details (accounts),” said Pillay. There were also almost 2000 cases where different companies had more than one bank account.
Pillay also revealed the department had identified 294 suppliers with the same VAT number.
In other cases it was discovered that some companies had invalid or incorrectly captured VAT numbers.
Pillay said that within the first week of conducting a verification process the department could already substantiate invalid VAT claims amounting to almost R400 000.
The department had also been the victim of double payments, said Pillay.
In transactions above R15 000 there had been more than R34m involved in double payments, while for figures below R15000 double payments to the value of R3.5m had been discovered.
Pillay said the department needed to recover almost R19m to negate the double payments.
A list, which Pillay made available to the Daily Dispatch, clearly identified the companies to which double payments had been made.
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