The Department reported that for several months it had been faced with a serious leadership crisis at senior management level. Most of the top leadership of the Department (including the Director General, Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Director-General of Corporate Services, and the Chief Information Officer) were either suspended pending a disciplinary hearing or under investigation and removed from performing certain tasks (including all the members of the Bid Committee). All these suspensions, investigations and subsequent disciplinary proceedings were because of alleged acts of dishonesty.