DA calls on Premier Makhura to investigate more than R431 million spent by GDE on decontaminating Gauteng schools
26 January 2021
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng is calling on the Gauteng Premier, David Makhura to initiate an urgent investigation into the more than R431 million spent by the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) in three months on decontaminating of schools for Covid-19.
The DA has learnt with shock that the Gauteng Department of Education has spent R431 274 959 on sanitising schools.
It is alleged that hundreds of companies who were awarded this tender to sanitise schools do not have any expertise and experience and are not part of the cleaning industry. The money for service rendered by these companies was paid in sundry payments which raises questions as to whether this money was spent wisely.
Furthermore, late last year the Department informed the Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s (GPL) Education Portfolio Committee that they had spent R15000 per school for fogging and that Bidvest had also rendered this service to some of the schools for free.