{"id":13033,"date":"2020-02-26T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:41:20","slug":"important-message-to-service-providers-fictitious-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=13033","title":{"rendered":"Important message to service providers: fictitious orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to the attention of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) that fictitious orders for goods and services are being issued in the name of Stats SA to prospective service providers. In light of this, all service providers are requested to check the validity of any correspondence regarding procurement of goods and services purported to be from Stats SA prior to execution thereof to avoid falling prey to fraudulent activities by unscrupulous persons.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the following persons to validate authenticity of Stats SA orders and other procurement related requests:<\/p>\n<p>Vonani Ngoveni \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 012 310 3983<\/p>\n<p>Minah Hendricks \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 012 310 6910<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:scmenquiries@statssa.gov.za\">scmenquiries@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to the attention of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) that fictitious orders for goods and services are being issued in the name of Stats SA to prospective service providers. In light of this, all service providers are requested to check the validity of any correspondence regarding procurement of goods and services purported&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=13033\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13034,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}