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City Press reports that the University of SA (Unisa) has placed its head of supply chain management under precautionary suspension, pending an investigation into allegations of serious misconduct.
The decision to suspend Mungedzi Nkuna last week came as Unisa lost its court bid to interdict Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande Nzimande from placing the organisation under administration. Nzimande has cited corruption and serious breaches of governance, management and administration as reasons to bring in an administrator. In the letter of suspension, Unisa vice-chancellor Puleng LenkaBula, wrote that it had come to her attention as the principal and vice-chancellor, as well as vice-principal of finance, supply chain management and business enterprise, that Nkuna had contravened and violated the provisions of the Construction Industry Development Board Act. “According to section 22(3) of the act, 38 of 2000, all construction contracts above the prescribed tender value must be recorded on the register of projects,” the letter indicated. Through its monitoring tools, the university has identified construction tenders which had not been advertised or registered, nor reported for completion, termination or cancellation. This was consequently a contravention of the legislation's prescripts.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Abram Mashego at City Press
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