Treasury grilled on R74bn deviation procurement

Treasury's Director General Dondo Mogajane was grilled by members of SCOPA on Wednesday on how it was possible for state entities and institutions to have been allowed to deviate from required procurement processes to the tune of a total of R74-billion in 2016/17. While the public procurement process makes provision for deviations of the tender process under certain circumstances, MP’s from across the political spectrum asked Mogajane to explain how such a vast sum could have been racked up without Treasury sounding the alarm.