The Special Tribunal has reviewed and set aside at least 49 school contamination contracts by the Gauteng Education Department. The service providers were part of a cohort of at least 280 service providers contracted by the department to clean, decontaminate and sanitise schools in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contracts were worth at least R431 million and by late last year, at least 263 of the service providers had been paid. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) had brought an application to have at least 173 of those contracts set aside and reviewed. In its papers before the tribun…