SARS targeted Mashatile-linked firm
SARS has handed a company with deep ties to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sons with a R3m tax bill for unpaid VAT and penalties – costs that it owes the taxman on income from a multi-million-rand government tender.
The company, Modipadi Nokaneng (Pty) Ltd, was served with a final demand in July and a court order was obtained in August, according to limited records reviewed by News24.
Modipadi Nokaneng and another company, Ngwato and Manzi Group (NMG), are the two entities utilised by Thabiso Mashatile and Tinyiko Mvelase in co-operation with their business partner Taletjo Nala Mahlakoana, to secure public contracts worth at least R90.6m.
The companies were the only two service providers appointed to a panel by the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (GPDID) in June 2022.
Netwerk24 first reported on the existence of the contracts.
The panel was responsible for maintaining fire detection and suppression systems at Gauteng hospitals.
GPDID was therefore an implementing agent for the Gauteng Department of Health.
Now, years later, none of the public hospitals in the province are compliant with health and safety regulations in terms of the fire systems, according to information published by DA Gauteng spokesperson on health, Jack Bloom.
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