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Police on the search for PPE dumpers

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Police are on the search for the culprits behind the dumping of a truckload of Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) along the Hannops River in Centurion over the weekend.


The police did not let any detail out but assured the public that they would get to the root of the matter.

Police spokesperson, Brigadier Mathapelo Peters, yesterday the police at Lyttleton SA Police Service are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.

“There have been no previous incidents of this nature to have been reported to the police.”

The police also interrogated the PPE supplying companies Promed Technologies, Medtex and Nitrile, whose names were clearly marked on the disposed consignment.

Democratic Alliance Tshwane councillor Bronwyn Engelbrecht, has argued that some incriminating evidence were hidden in that incident

The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the SA Communist Party, have called on president Cyril Ramaphosa to have a firmer hand in dealing with corruption.

The investigation of the multi-million-rand PPE government tenders is still ongoing with politically connected individuals implicated in the scandal.

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