Verification agents to be accredited ED RICHARDSON DEPARTMENT OF Trade and Industry Black Economic Empowerment director Jeffrey Ndumo says government is looking at ways of dealing with fronting. “Fronting is the scourge that exists in our economy and should be rooted out in all its forms,” he told delegates at an African Federated Chambers of Commerce and Industry conference in Johannesburg recently. “We are going to invite all government departments to create capacity in terms of verification in procurement processes,” he said. Ndumo said although there were agencies that dealt with verification in this regard, many of them were not accredited to operate in this sector. “Early next year they will get certificates to operate [as accredited verifiers] through the help of our department,” he said. He urged private companies that had also become victims of fronting to report such activities to law enforcement agencies as they constituted crime.
