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Authority: Government of South Africa
Free State Premier Ace Magashule officially launched our Botshabelo bed manufacturing factory (then trading as Kings Comfort) on 28 October 2014, in a project funded by the Free State Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs.
Authority: Provincial MEC for Economic Development
In his budget vote speech to the Free State Legislature, the MEC named the factory as the anchor of the province's Township Bed Supplier Programme: 100 beds a day, 55 local young people employed, as part of a R4.1 million initiative to stock 40 township stores.
Authority: Parliament of South Africa
Parliament's own newsletter reported that we donated 60 beds and mattresses to a children's place of safety in Botshabelo, home to 53 children aged 4 to 18, after Free State MEC for Social Development Mamiki Qabathe appealed for help during the COVID-19 lockdown. Founder Andries Taljaard is quoted and pictured in the same publication, alongside the MEC and then-Premier Sisi Ntombela. This is the strongest credential we have: an independent national Parliament publication, not something we wrote ourselves.
Source: Parliament of South Africa, Re Betla Tsela, Vol 02 No 4, May 2020
The article is in Sesotho. We are stating the facts it reports here, not quoting its text, until a first-language speaker has checked our translation.
Authority: Department of Social Development
Mr Mattress supplied the beds and mattresses for the Charlotte Maxeke Treatment Centre in Botshabelo, a Free State Department of Social Development facility officially opened by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Freedom Day, 27 April 2021.
Source: The Presidency of South Africa, National Freedom Day 2021, Botshabelo
To be precise about what this claim is and is not: the government source confirms the facility and who opened it. The supply of beds and mattresses is our own record. We are not saying the President endorsed us, and we never will.
A television visit to the factory.
eNCA visited the Botshabelo factory during a Chinese investment delegation to the Free State and reported that it employed 70 people, describing the beds as high quality at a fraction of the market price.
On air at an investment trade event.
SABC 2 covered the company exhibiting at the Free State Global Investment Trade Bridge. Free State Premier Ace Magashule and Molefi Molefe, representing the company on national expansion, both spoke in the report.
Also in print: Netwerk24, 6 October 2015, reporting on a Free State investment event and quoting Molefi Molefe. Paywalled, so cited as a dated reference, not a link.
We still run a Work Integrated Learning partnership with South African universities today, placing marketing students with us.
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We have never held a Department of Social Development tender or supply contract.
We would rather tell you what we have not been able to verify than let you assume it. Two organisations we have supplied, Ebenhaeser Home for the Aged in Cloetesville, Stellenbosch, and Sunflower House children's hospice in Bloemfontein, do not yet have a signed, naming-permission letter on file, so we are not treating those relationships as independently citable here the way the four credentials above are. A Bloemfontein foot specialist refers patients to us regularly, again on our own account rather than a documented third party source. We would rather under-claim than over-claim.
We have never held a Department of Social Development tender or supply contract. What is documented above is donation and sponsorship, reported by Parliament and confirmed by government sources on the factory launch, not a procurement relationship.
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Check AvailabilityYes. Free State Premier Ace Magashule officially launched the company's Botshabelo bed factory in October 2014, see the credential above for the name it traded under then. The following year, Free State MEC Mosebenzi Zwane named the factory in his budget vote speech to the Free State Legislature as the anchor of a R4.1 million Township Bed Supplier Programme. Both are documented government sources, linked above.
Yes. Parliament's own newsletter, Re Betla Tsela, Vol 02 No 4, May 2020, reported that the company donated 60 beds and mattresses to a Botshabelo children's place of safety during the COVID-19 lockdown, at the appeal of Free State MEC for Social Development Mamiki Qabathe. Founder Andries Taljaard is named and pictured in the publication.
Mr Mattress supplied the beds and mattresses for the Charlotte Maxeke Treatment Centre in Botshabelo, a Free State Department of Social Development facility that President Cyril Ramaphosa officially opened on Freedom Day, 27 April 2021. This is not a presidential endorsement of the company, and we do not present it as one.
No. We have not found, and do not claim, any Department of Social Development tender, contract or purchase order. The documented relationships above are a factory launch, a provincial programme naming the company, and donations, not procurement.
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