The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has resolved to request the Minister of Planning and Monitoring, Mr Jeff Radebe, the Minister of State Security, Adv Bongani Bongo, and the Director-General of the State Security Agency (SSA) to brief the Committee on the vetting of supply chain management personnel across all organs of state, as per the cabinet decisions taken in 2014.

Scopa notes that other government entities that have not adhered to this Cabinet decision, including Transnet, and would like to hear the view of the SSA on the matter.

Scopa has requested Transnet to supply a list of all current forensic investigations and the reports of these investigations as soon as they are available. Scopa will also request from National Treasury all the reports it has compiled on Transnet. Scopa has requested Transnet to reappear before it next week to gather more information on the details of contracts, deviations and expansions.