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The intricate web of clues to who ordered the assassination of Gauteng Department of Health senior finance officer Babita Deokaran is becoming more complex and shows possible links to a politically connected Gauteng mafia, according to highly placed sources who worked on an earlier investigatio...

Source: South Africa News Agency A newly established forum to monitor infrastructure projects more effectively and put systems in place to detect and prevent corruption has been launched in Cape Town. Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) Minister, Patricia de Lille, and Head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), Advocate Andy Mothibi, launched the Infrastructure Built Anti-Corruption Forum (IBACF) on Monday, an initiative by the Anti-Corruption Task Team, government and civil society, toge...

Minister Lamola says NPA is not protecting white criminals By Mayibongwe Maqhina Share Cape Town - Minister Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola on Wednesday dismissed suggestions by the EFF that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was not prosecuting former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste because it was protecting white criminals. Lamola said the NPA was not protecting black or white criminals. He made the comment when he was responding to a follow-up question during a que...

News24/file The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has revealed it spent R5 billion on renting private properties for government departments and institutions. Just over 300 landlords have been over-payed to the tune of R66 million, most of which the department has already recouped. The expenditure covers the financial year ending March 2020. Government has forked out R5 billion on renting private properties for government departments and institutions, but the fight is now on to recou...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has made four major appointments to the team of Shamila Batohi, the national director of public prosecutions. The four now complete her full team, and there can be no more excuses about a lack of human resources from the National Prosecuting Authority to see more criminals in orange overalls. Advocate Anton du Plessis will resign from his job in New York as a top advisor to the UN Security Council to become the fourth national deputy director of prosecutions, while thr...

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is recovering millions of rand paid in overpayments to owners of buildings leased to the government.

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. 2020 has been a tumultuous year for the SAPS. At least 20 rotten cops, many at the apex of the service, have been arrested, charged and dismissed for fraud and corruption amounting to hundreds of millions of rand. Five years ago this colonic irrigation of senior ranks in law enforcement would have been unlikely if not unthinkable unless forced by an order of the court. The arrests come after years of dogged investigation, often under l...