Regulation Gazette No. 6106

Vol. 392 - PRETORIA, 20 FEBRUARY 1998 - NO. 18700

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

No. R. 17, 1998

SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNITS AND SPECIAL TRIBUNALS ACT, 1996 (ACT No. 74 OF 1996)

REFERRAL OF MATTERS TO EXISTING SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNIT AND SPECIAL TRIBUNAL

WHEREAS allegations as contemplated in section 2 (2) of the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act, 1996 (Act No. 74 of 1996), have been made in respect of the matters mentioned in the Schedule;

AND WHEREAS I deem it necessary that the said allegations should be investigated and any justiciable civil disputes emanating from such investigation should be adjudicated upon;

NOW, THEREFORE, I hereby, under section 2 (1 ) of the said Act, and after consultation with the Premier of the Province of the Eastern Cape, refer the matters in the Schedule for investigation to the Special Investigating Unit and for adjudication of any justiciable civil dispute emanating from such investigation to the Special Tribunal established by Proclamation No. R. 24 of 14 March 1997 and determine that, for the purposes of the investigation of these matters, the terms of reference of the Special Investigating Unit are to investigate as contemplated in the said Act, any—

1. serious maladministration in connection with the affairs of any State institution mentioned in the Schedule;
2. improper or unlawful conduct by employees of any State institution mentioned in the Schedule
3. unlawful appropriation or expenditure of public money or property;
4. (d) unlawful, irregular or unapproved acquisitive act, transaction, measure or practice having a bearing upon State property;
5. intentional or negligent loss of public money or damage to public property;
6. corruption in connection with the affairs of any State institution mentioned in the Schedule; or
7. unlawful or improper conduct by any person which has caused or may cause serious harm to the interests of the public or any category thereof,

which has taken place between 1 January 1995 and the date of publication of this Proclamation.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town on this Seventeenth day of February, One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-eight.

N. R. MANDELA
President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

A. M. OMAR
Minister of the Cabinet

SCHEDULE

1. The improper administration of the State feeding scheme in the Eastern Cape by the Daily Bread Charitable Trust.
2. The improper or unlawful purchases or channelling of purchases of nutritional products for purposes of the State feeding scheme in the Eastern Cape through Imonti Commodities CC.
3. The payment of excessively high prices for nutritional products for purposes of the State feeding scheme in the Eastern Cape by the Department of Health and Welfare of the Eastern Cape.