Has SA lost R700bn to corruption?
IOL 01 October 2015 at 2:20pm Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk Has SA lost R700 billion to corruption since ’94? Africa Check’s Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk explain why the calculation is wrong....
View ArticlePolicy Coherence To Boost East Africa Pharmaceutical Industry
Intellectual Property Watch 02/10/2015 BY HILLARY MUHEEBWA FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WATCH KAMPALA, UGANDA – The pharmaceutical industry in the East African Community is approaching a higher level of...
View ArticleHas SA lost R700bn to corruption?
IOL 01 October 2015 at 2:20pm Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk Has SA lost R700 billion to corruption since ’94? Africa Check’s Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk explain why the calculation is wrong....
View ArticlePolicy Coherence To Boost East Africa Pharmaceutical Industry
Intellectual Property Watch 02/10/2015 BY HILLARY MUHEEBWA FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WATCH KAMPALA, UGANDA – The pharmaceutical industry in the East African Community is approaching a higher level of...
View ArticleTHE NEW SNAKE OIL? The violence, threats, and false promises driving rapid...
Global Witness July 23, 2015 Urgent reforms needed to protect citizens and regulate plantation companies. As Liberia emerges as a new frontier market for the cheapest, most popular vegetable oil...
View ArticleRwanda: Parliament Defers Procurement Bill
via AllAfrica January 20, 2015 By Athan Tashobya The parliamentary Standing Committee on Budget and Patrimony, yesterday, sent back to the drawing board a new draft law that seeks to professionalise...
View ArticleRwanda: Latest – Minecofin PS Appears in Parliament Over Draft Procurement Law
via AllAfrica January 19, 2015 By Athan Tashobya Professional procurement officers in the public and private sector will add value to Rwanda’s procurement sector, Kampeta Sayinzoga, the Permanent...
View ArticleThe role of procurement in EAC integration
New Vision Billy Rwothungeyo September 04, 2014 Lately, the East African Community (EAC) heads of state have been walking the talk of the integration of...
View ArticleUganda: Procurement Challenges Dog many Local Governments
NTV Uganda The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets PPDA, says that the procedures on contract awards and executions at local government levels remain weak. PPDA’s Director for Procurement...
View ArticleTanzania: ENOC Africa Wins Another Tender to Import Fuel
Tanzania Daily News via AllAfrica A TANZANIAN oil company, ENOC Africa, has won a tender to import fuel under the Petroleum Bulk Procurement System (BPS) for the month of October, this year. The...
View ArticleOp-Ed: We’re withdrawing from the Arms Procurement Commission, and here’s why
Daily Maverick By A FEINSTEIN, P HOLDEN AND H VAN VUUREN August 29, 2014 The Arms Deal was a uniquely damaging moment in our young democratic history. It was concluded after decades of uncontrolled...
View ArticleNigeria approves N33bn intervention fund for meter procurement
Nigerian Tribune by Gbola Subair The acute shortage of electricity meters in the country will soon be a thing of the past as the Presidency has approved the sum of N33 billion intervention fund for its...
View Article300MW solar tender cancelled in Zimbabwe
The Chronicle August 23, 2014 Local News Lloyd Gumbo Harare BureauTHE State Procurement Board has cancelled the 300 Megawatts solar projects indefinitely after one winning bidder...
View ArticleUgandan Head of Health Procurement Dismissed over Alleged Bribe
State House of Uganda August 22, 2014 President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary, Asuman Lukwago, to dismiss the Head of Procurement, Frank...
View ArticleUganda: Embrace new guidelines for procurement
The Observer Editorial Sunday August 24, 2014 The country has been left in some confusion as regards the upgrading of the Mukono-Katosi-Nyenga road. First, the company that supposedly won the deal to...
View ArticleNigeria: Experts Pick Holes in Procurement Process
This Day By James Emejo Say absence of governing council violates enabling act. Renewed controversies have trailed the continued existence of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) without the...
View ArticleSouth African government aims to buy three quarters of goods and services...
SupplyManagement 18 June 2014 | Gurjit Degun The South African government is to promote local procurement by buying 75 per cent of goods and services from producers in the country. Speaking at the...
View ArticleUganda overhauls procurement rules to ‘eliminate influence peddling’
SupplyManagement 8 April 2014 | Will Green Government procurement regulations in Uganda have been revamped to support local businesses, speed up processes and “eliminate influence peddling”. Under the...
View ArticleUganda overhauls procurement rules to ‘eliminate influence peddling’
SupplyManagement 8 April 2014 | Will Green Government procurement regulations in Uganda have been revamped to support local businesses, speed up processes and “eliminate influence peddling”. Under the...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Armscor defends its counter-trade deals
BusinessDay Mar 5, 2014 | Ernest Mabuza Commission hears Armscor’s counter-trade agreements with foreign arms suppliers outside of the 1999 arms deal amounted to R5.4bn between 1988 and 2000 ARMSCOR’s...
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