Covid-19 emergency funds, supplied to South Africa by the IMF, have fallen prey to fraudsters when stringent tender procedures were not followed. Tenders worth over R2 billion for personal protective equipment (ppe), allocated by the Gauteng health department to 160 different companies, are under investigation by Gauteng's special investigation unit. An additional R30 million of illegal tenders in Kwazulu-Natal, besides tenders in the Eastern Cape, are under investigation and do not appear to comply with the national treasury's regulations on the emergency purchases of supplies and services. Employees of government institutions, including the SAPS, have also been implicated in over R1 billion of irregular deposits of Covid-19 funds into private companies.