Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) procurement contracts entered into in the Free State have been set aside by the Special Tribunal. The judgment was handed down by Judge Lebogang Modiba on Monday. According to the tribunal, Modiba’s judgment also invalidated the appointment of the 36 companies who won the contracts, worth some R39.1 million. “Judge Modiba ruled that the respondents’ entities are to be divested of the profit they have derived or stand to derive from the [contracts]. The Judge ordered that the SIU [Special Investigating Unit] should enlist the services of an appropriate indepe…