Overpricing is where government’s real leakage sits, says Treasury’s Kenneth Brown

It is South Africa’s equivalent to the proverbial $640 Pentagon toilet seat — a paper binding machine that the government buys from its suppliers for the rand equivalent of almost $2,000, about 13 times what it should cost. Chief Procurement Officer Kenneth Brown cited the binding machine as an example of the massive waste that […]

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