CoA confirms Kebonang’s P1.5 billion water tender award

This is after the Court of Appeal (CoA) confirmed the award of the P1.5 billion water supply tender to Tawana Joint Venture by the then High Court Judge Zein Kebonang. The case had dragged on for almost two years from the Public Procurement through the High Court and ultimately the CoA, leaving the residents with an extended, unreliable water supply.

Kebonang had awarded the tender to Tawana JV after he came to a conclusion that initial awardees Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (Pty) Ltd and Zhong Gan Engineering & Construction Corporation Botswana (Pty) Ltd Joint Venture (CCECC/ZGEC JV) were ‘superimposed’ by the then Permanent Secretary, Kekgonne Baipoledi.