Gauteng Health Department slow to act on wasteful R500m contract
18 June 2018
The Gauteng Health Department has not yet concluded an investigation into a R500 million data storage contract with Telkom that it admits was totally unnecessary.
Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa says in a written reply to my questions in the Gauteng Legislature that there is an ongoing investigation and “fieldwork is currently being conducted across all the sites where the V-Block is deployed.”
Ramokgopa says that her department will only respond on possible disciplinary action and criminal charges once the investigation is concluded.
I am disappointed by the slow progress in this matter as it was revealed in November last year that R500 million had been wasted on the massive V-Block data-storage facility, whereas the storage facility at the e-governance department could have been used instead.