Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba says the recently launched provincial government road service delivery programme, called Dikgerekgere Wednesday, will not go out to tender.
“When I started [talking about] Dikgerekgere Wednesday, I saw people starting to salivate and saying ‘it means another tender is in the pipeline’. We must re-empower the mandate of public works to build and maintain infrastructure.
“Where we are building roads, we must maintain them internally. Why should everything go through a tender? We are fighting because of these tenders,” she said at a government event on Tuesday.
She urged the management of the provincial department of public works, roads and infrastructure to invest in essential equipment to enable the government to deliver certain services without outsourcing.
“Every year we must dedicate budget. There must be budget towards yellow fleet [vehicles]. There must be budget towards the appointment of the operators because we want to do this in-house,” she said.
Modiegi Mashamaite
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