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Fraudulent tenders milk Limpopo treasury (South Africa)
IOL News By Piet Rampedi January 29, 2012 The Limpopo education department, which accounted for nearly half of the province’s R2 billion cash-flow crisis, awarded R1.2bn school infrastructure contracts...
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Patel outlines new ‘integrity pact’ to screen firms for big-project deals
AScommercialPopNews February 16, 2012 As the state ramps up its infrastructure spend, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has insisted on ‘value for money.’ Emboldened by a broadly positive...
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Uganda: Can MPs improve oil contracts?
The Independent By Andrew M. Mwenda February 17, 2012 We should be suspicious of parliamentary interventions in lucrative government contracts because they often make a bad situation worse. Recently,...
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Nigeria: Zobe Dam Unutilized 29 Years After Commissioning
AllAfrica.com By Shehu Bubakar August 4th, 2012 Completed in 1983, Zobe dam is still not being used for water supply, for local irrigation or for power generation. The construction of Zobe Dam near...
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Kenya: Procurement law set for review
Sunday Nation By TOM MOSOBA tmosoba@tz.nationmedia.com August 18th, 2012 IN SUMMARY The review is in response to a spate of court cases and controversies that continue to plague tendering for major...
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South Africa: Gordhan’s war on incompetence and impunity
Mail & Guardian By Faranaaz Parker July 24, 2012 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has revealed plans for the national treasury to take a much tighter grip on local governments‘ finances. See the...
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Nigeria Validates Manitoba’s Power-Mangement Contract
Bloomberg By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo Nov 21, 2012 Nigeria validated a power-management contract signed by Canada’s Manitoba Hydro Electric Board in July to run the state-owned power utility Transmission Co....
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Supply Chain Management – turning professional?
The Guardian The trend for professionalising supply chain management in the private sector is slowly reaching the public sector in Africa but still rarely appears anywhere near the top of development...
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Algerians outraged over latest corruption accusations against state oil and...
Fox News March 3, 2013 / Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria – Corrupt and gorging itself at the trough of Algeria’s vast oil wealth — that’s how most Algerians privately view the elites running the...
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Kenya: Minutes reveal how IEBC bought pollbooks
Standard Digital By Moses Michira and Paul Wafula March 26, 2013 NAIROBI, KENYA: The electoral commission, which conducted the March 4 General Election, bought voter identification gadgets without...
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Margaret Thatcher, public procurement pioneer and advocate?
Spend Matters By Peter Smith April 8, 2013 Margaret Thatcher, who died today, was the United Kingdom’s most important politician of the last 50 years. She will be remembered for both her domestic...
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Uganda: Embrace new guidelines for procurement
The Observer Editorial Sunday August 24, 2014 The country has been left in some confusion as regards the upgrading of the Mukono-Katosi-Nyenga road. First, the company that supposedly won the deal to...
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