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The Special Tribunal has reviewed and set aside at least 49 school contracts awarded by the Gauteng Education Department for the decontamination of schools.
The contracts were worth over R430 million and by late last year, at least 263 of the service providers had been paid.
The Special Investigating Unit brought an application to have at least 173 of those contracts set aside and reviewed.
In its papers before the tribunal, the SIU alleged that these service providers were sourced through social media and phone calls, that they were not registered on the department’s service provider database.
They were also given blanket amounts of between R250 000 and R300 000 to clean department offices and schools.
The Tribunal ruling found that at least 49 of these contracts were invalid and ordered that profits made as a result of these contracts be returned to the Gauteng Department of Education.
