Some of the cases under the spotlight in this meeting, include the police investigation into the controversial Taung Hotel School project. The North West Department of Tourism spent just under R8 million on the school’s boom gate system and fence alone. The Department acquired the building for development for R5 million.

The R251 million stationery contract that was issued in 2016/17 for three years by the Education Department will also form part of the briefing.

In a statement issued by the Provincial Legislature, it is revealed 34 of the cases that will be presented during the meeting were opened by the inter-ministerial task team led by Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The task team was established following violent unrest that was centred in the North West capital, Mahikeng, in April 2018. The task team was established prior to the cabinet’s decision to invoke Section 100 (1) (b) of the Constitution of 1996, which effectively placed the province under administration.

The briefing comes soon after the dismissal of provincial health department head, Thabo Lekalakala. The former department head is most known for spearheading the department’s controversial deal with Gupta-linked company, Mediosa, in which the company pocketed R30 million as a down payment for a single mobile clinic. Lekalakala, and former Finance MEC and current Member of Parliament, Wendy Nelson, are also at the centre of a fraud case centred on Lekalakala’s irregular appointment in 2014.

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