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Johannesburg - The Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (Cipro) has dismissed seven employees after a “comprehensive internal investigation into the misrepresentation of qualifications", according to acting CEO Lungile Dukwana.
The cases of two of the staff members are also going to be handed over to the South African Police Service (Saps) after they gave falsified certificates of their qualifications to Cipro. The other five employees were unable to supply the required certificates.
In all these cases, the qualifications were an important requirement for being able to do the work. The employees worked in various departments in Cipro, and some have been working there for a long time, Cipro spokesperson Dr Elsabé Conradie said.
Apart from these dismissals, five other fraud-related cases are currently being investigated, Dukwana said.
The internal investigation into fraud, which started in March, has resulted in a number of changes and has led to a "general tightening up of procedures in order to combat fraud". Dukwana said: "Our aim is to bring those responsible for fraud to book and to put an action plan in place to prevent any future occurrence of any type of fraud."
Conradie said the dismissals would not have any effect on Cipro's service delivery, because the employees came from different departments. Cipro's customers have been struggling with slow service delivery for a long time, because of inadequate capacity within the organisation.
These problems were to be addressed by a new electronic content management system. However, the contract for the implementation of the new system was cancelled by the department of trade and industry earlier in June following irregularities with the granting of the tender.
Conradie said all work done so far is the property of Cipro, which is now seeking the "best alternative solution". More than R90m of the R153m contract has already been paid to the supplier, ValorIT. ValorIT has applied to the Pretoria High Court to confirm the validity of the contract.
- Sake24.com
The cases of two of the staff members are also going to be handed over to the South African Police Service (Saps) after they gave falsified certificates of their qualifications to Cipro. The other five employees were unable to supply the required certificates.
In all these cases, the qualifications were an important requirement for being able to do the work. The employees worked in various departments in Cipro, and some have been working there for a long time, Cipro spokesperson Dr Elsabé Conradie said.
Apart from these dismissals, five other fraud-related cases are currently being investigated, Dukwana said.
The internal investigation into fraud, which started in March, has resulted in a number of changes and has led to a "general tightening up of procedures in order to combat fraud". Dukwana said: "Our aim is to bring those responsible for fraud to book and to put an action plan in place to prevent any future occurrence of any type of fraud."
Conradie said the dismissals would not have any effect on Cipro's service delivery, because the employees came from different departments. Cipro's customers have been struggling with slow service delivery for a long time, because of inadequate capacity within the organisation.
These problems were to be addressed by a new electronic content management system. However, the contract for the implementation of the new system was cancelled by the department of trade and industry earlier in June following irregularities with the granting of the tender.
Conradie said all work done so far is the property of Cipro, which is now seeking the "best alternative solution". More than R90m of the R153m contract has already been paid to the supplier, ValorIT. ValorIT has applied to the Pretoria High Court to confirm the validity of the contract.
- Sake24.com
