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News24 Wire reports that Eskom has suspended its chief procurement officer, Solly Tshitangano, and will be instituting disciplinary action against him following allegations of poor performance over the last year.
Andre de Ruyter, the power utility’s group chief executive officer, confirmed that Tshitangano had been suspended because of his failure to turn around the company's procurement division. He was tasked with saving Eskom 4% of its annual spend of R140-billion on goods and services, but has been unable to do so. "We spend R140-billion buying goods and services. We are paying more than what we should be paying. R2-billion savings is not a lot, it's about 4% of R140-billion. That is exceptionally modest, but Solly has not delivered what was asked of him," De Ruyter indicated. Tshitangano, a former senior official at National Treasury's highly regarded procurement office, is well-known in government circles for demanding that the Public Finance Management Act and, in particular, procurement regulations be followed to the letter. De Ruyter said the procurement division was battling to implement a turnaround strategy. He reported that Eskom would have paid R238,000 for a wooden mop had he not intervened, but that it had until recently been paying R28 for a roll of single-ply toilet paper and R56 for a two litre bottle of milk.
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