{"id":32082,"date":"2021-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=dcfb63dfc418f94d64fef8db6ed06321"},"modified":"2021-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"presidency-receives-siu-report-on-digital-vibes-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/presidency-receives-siu-report-on-digital-vibes-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency receives SIU report on Digital Vibes investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has received the final report of the Special Investigating Unit on an investigation into a contract between the National Department of Health and service provider, Digital Vibes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Presidency is studying the report and will keep the public abreast of developments in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will do so in a manner that preserves information that may be or become the subject of prosecution, civil action or disciplinary proceedings,\u201d the Presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The SIU is probing the irregular awarding of a R150 million tender to close associates of Health Minister Zweli Mkhize who has been placed on special leave pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been granted a preservation order to freeze approximately R22 million held in bank and investment accounts linked to Digital Vibes (Pty) Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The order was granted on 17 June 2021 by the Special Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>This is as part of taking action against those implicated in corruption, maladministration and malpractice, in the matter involving the national  Department of Health and the communication firm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has received the final report of the Special Investigating Unit on an investigation into a contract between the National Department of Health and service provider, Digital Vibes.\u201cThe Presidency is studying the report and will keep the pu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}