Vodacom contract: Cosatu says Treasury must be held accountable

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Published Oct 6, 2017

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JOHANNESBURG

- The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has noted with alarm the

statements by the Competition Commission that the National Treasury ignored its

advice against awarding a multi-billion rand tender to Vodacom; because it would

have entrenched and Vodacom’s position and distorted competition.

The union said

that country deserves answers from those who were responsible for ignoring this

advice from the Competition Commission. 

“The

federation feels vindicated because we have been arguing for a long time that

the state and National Treasury in particular, need to be extricated from

the shackles of private monopoly interests. The influence of monopolies and

established white businesses can be seen in tender allocations and policy

development; not only at Treasury but across government,” said Cosatu.

Cosatu reiterates

its previous assertion that unless we address this right-wing ideological

model of the public sector that seeks to change the public service to operate

along the lines of the private sector and insist that government should be the

client of the private sector, nothing will change.

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The

federation remains committed to intensifying its fight against the introduction

of private-sector practices such as public-private-partnerships, outsourcing,

agencification and privatisation in the public service 

“We commend

the Competition Commission for its tireless work in exposing this public and

private sector collusion. We hope that other state institutions will start

doing their work to ensure that we can dismantle this corruption and corporate

capture of the state, including holding the culprits involved accountable for

their actions,” said Cosatu.

- BUSINESS REPORT ONLINE

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