R2K Statement: Corruption is destroying our nation!
9 December 2020
This International Anti-Corruption Day, R2K calls on all South Africans to stand united and fight against corruption. Today the international community is speaking in one voice under the theme: 'Recover with Integrity to Build Forward Better'.
To mark this day, R2K in Gauteng will picket outside the Gauteng Legislature at 43 Rissik Street, in Johannesburg from 10 AM to call for the arrest of all those implicated in Covid-19 widespread corruption.
Earlier this year we learnt with disappointment that the Gauteng government has spent more than R10-billion on procuring personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect frontline healthcare workers. Many of them got infected and died of Covid-19 related complications due to the absence of this necessary equipment. It has been reported that politicians and connected tenderpreneurs exaggerated the prices of PPE and thereby becoming overnight millionaires.
The SIU said in Gauteng alone it was investigating, 90 companies used to procure PPEs; 30 companies used to procure medical equipment and 32 companies for services related to catering, flights, accommodation, counselling sessions for staff, among other services’ but three months down the line no arrests have been made despite the suspension of various departmental heads including former health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku.