Public Works to issue tender for border security
The Department of Public Works will issue out tenders as part of its long term solution to secure the country's borders.
This comes after the R40 million botched Beitbridge border fence that was put up as a division between Zimbabwe and South Africa, ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Answering questions before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Minister Patricia de Lille says the department has so far received 16 proposals to come up with solutions for the border fence.
“On 26 April we had put out a request for information, we wanted to test the market and see what is available on the market and we had received 16 proposals about different solutions for the border fence including how to make use of the technology and all of that.
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“So the evaluation committee is busy looking at those 16 proposals that we have received. They have promised me by the end of June, they will recommend three different options.
"We will then take those options to the department of defence because they must agree to the specification and once we have done, we will then start the tender procedure.”
