The DA in Limpopo will request MEC for Co-operative Governance Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA), Basikopo Makamo, to take steps to prevent implicated officials in the R167.9 million Easyway Tarmac Pave and Projects CC tender from undermining the disciplinary referral by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to the Mogalakwena municipality following the Tribunal’s findings on 10 September 2025.
The Special Tribunal ordered that Easyway Tarmac Pave Projects CC misrepresented its grading to obtain this lucrative tender for borehole development, reservoir storage and bulk gravity supply pipelines by claiming that three projects over R50 million were completed.
The tribunal further ordered the culprit company to pay the earned amount of R68.8 million to the SIU.
Judge Mashile also found that the Bid Evaluation Committee was unfair and un-transparent, as it failed to score bids according to its own specifications and could not justify why a higher scoring bidder was overlooked.
This unlawful tender forms part of the SIU investigation under a Proclamation by the President to investigate Mogalakwena municipality for the period 1 April 2016 to 5 March 2021 for amongst other irregular expenditure of R1.7 billion raked up by September 2019.
We welcome the SIU’s referral of the case to the NPA, but remain insistent that MEC Makamu needs to request information or appoint an investigator to conduct the disciplinary process as there is clear evidence of “maladministration fraud, corruption or any other serious malpractice has occurred or is occurring in a municipality” as required by Section 106 of the Municipal Systems Act.
The DA further calls for the immediate suspension of all officials complicit in the awarding of this tender-regardless of where they are currently deployed ; there must be consequences for all who partook in the wholesale looting of Mogalakwena municipality.