
Chinese state owned company, China Jiangsu International (CJI) has been ordered to pay litigation costs for a case against Botswana government and Zhengtai Group for the construction of the P400 million Moshupa Primary Hospital, which they recently abandoned. CJI has been fighting a messy battle with Botswana government for the Moshupa Hospital tender after they were snubbed by PPADB after the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS) wrote a letter to procuring entities alleging that the company is involved in massive corruption and therefore a threat to national security. Consequently, numerous government tenders, which had been awarded to CJI were cancelled. The Moshupa Primary Hospital tender was re-awarded to another Chinese company, Zhengtai Group Botswana and have already started the construction of the project. Upon realising which prompted CJI to withdraw their case which they CJI filed a lawsuit in an attempt to interdict the commencement of the project while challenging the cancellation of the tender based on the DIS allegations, but decided to abandon the case when they discovered that Zhengtai had already started construction. They stated in their court papers that it will be pointless or an academic exercise to proceed with the review without the protection…