SIU warns Bandile Masuku that probe into illegal awarding of PPE tenders still on
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Johannesburg - The Special Investigative Unit has warned former Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku that its investigations into the irregular awarding of personal protective equipment (PPE) tenders would continue.
The unit reacted on Sunday to comments made by Masuku on Saturday after he said the “SIU had effectively propped me as the proverbial poster boy of Covid-19 related corruption.“
Masuku was reacting to the decision by the ANC national disciplinary committee to overturn the Gauteng ANC’s decision to suspend his membership in the provincial executive committee.
Zuma fights to overturn adverse legal costs ruling
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FORMER president Jacob Zuma was back at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) yesterday in a bid to overturn the high court ruling stripping him of state-funded legal services in his fraud and corruption trial.
A full Bench of the North Gauteng High Court – Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba and Judges Piet Meyer and Elizabeth Kubushi – had declared the state not liable for legal costs incurred by Zuma in his personal capacity for criminal prosecution instituted against him.
In their December 2018 ruling, the judges reviewed and set aside decisions by the Presidency and the Office of the State Attorney made between June 2005 and March 2018 for the government to cover the legal costs Zuma incurred personally in applications relating to his criminal prosecution.
In 2008, just before the ANC’s Polokwane conference, I wrote an opinion piece in
City Press titled “Vote for Order – Zuma can’t be entrusted with the presidency but Motlanthe can”. This was my attempt to raise concern about the possibility of the then deputy president Jacob Zuma contesting for the presidency without having been pronounced innocent by the courts on criminal charges of corruption, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. Zuma had previously and quite appropriately been fired by President Thabo Mbeki after a high court found him to have a “generally corrupt relationship with a certain Mr Schabir Shaik”.
A full Bench of the North Gauteng High Court has thrown out delinquent director for life Dudu Myeni’s appeal against an enforcement order.
That order, made in late December last year, required her to forsake all her remaining directorships, including the chair of the Jacob G Zuma Foundation.
A full Bench of the court heard Myeni’s “extreme urgent appeal” last Monday. The judges were Judge President of the Gauteng division of the High Court Dunston Mlambo, Justice Vuyelwa Tlhapi and Justice Annelie Basson.
In their judgment, issued on Monday afternoon, the three judges upheld the argument put forward by the counsel for the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and the SAA Pilots’ Association (Saapa) last Monday.