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Thousands of dead people in South Africa still bidding for govt business
Published Tue, May 23, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa's National Treasury has discovered about 12,000 dead people in its register of companies that do business with the state.
This is among the outcomes of a clean-up of the information system that the Treasury's procurement office undertook as the government battles to rein in spending, said Schalk Human, the unit's acting head.
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