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He said Williams and the employees whom she had given a glowing review during her testimony while accusing him of driving canada goose outlet uk sale them out of the organisation forgot to inform the commission canada goose outlet locations in toronto that they had been investigated by National Treasury after Williams had signed off on a R26 million tender said payments for this tender were made through invoices so as to go unnoticed by Treasury
Manyi submitted a National Treasury investigation report that highlighted procurement irregularities with two service providers hired to do work surrounding an awareness campaign about the 2011 census.
The company was later paid R6.9 million before the scheme was uncovered, he said.
The same Treasury probe found that a second service provider was irregularly paid R700 000 for the same project, while StatsSA allegedly paid a service provider R64 million to provide artwork for the ad campaigns on the 2011 census, but never provided any work.
Manyi also dismissed Williams allegations against him.
Williams, who is currently the acting director general of the GCIS, said during her testimony in August that, on canada goose outlet parka arrival, Manyi overhauled the GCIS, replacing the entire department bidding committee with officials loyal to him.
She also claimed that he placed his office in charge of off on any tenders said Manyi used his position to meddle in the affairs of the cheap canada goose internal auditing team.
Manyi is expected to return to the commission on November 23 the day he was originally scheduled to testify.
Earlier, Judge Raymond Zondo, who is heading the commission, said canada goose jacket outlet toronto it was due to a miscommunication that Manyi had been instructed to attend Wednesday proceedings.
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Meanwhile, former president Jacob Zuma son, Duduzane, briefly appeared before the inquiry on Wednesday and aired his grievances with the commission legal team.
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Duduzane counsel, Piet Louw, said his client had been inconvenienced by sudden and uncommunicated rescheduling since had to travel from abroad in order to appear before the commission and cross examine Jonas
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Zondo noted that it was an oversight on the side of the commission legal team and ruled that a date more suitable for the two parties should be pursued and settled on.
The sequence of events on Wednesday came as a slight reprieve for former and current ANC leaders who have been thrust into the spotlight following testimony by former public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan which had revealed gross meddling by former president Zuma and other party members including former secretary general Gwede Mantashe in the appointment and day to day running of state owned enterprises.
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