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Two of the three people charged with fraud of R1.4 million in National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funds have been released on bail.
The money was meant for students at a Durban college.
Nosipho Sokhela, 30, and Thabisile Mdabe, 40, were granted R2 000 bail each when they appeared in the Durban Magistrate s Court on Tuesday morning.
Sandile Sokhela, 39, the main accused in the matter, was granted R5 000 bail but was remanded in police custody after he could not make bail.
READ | It is alleged that between October 2015 and 22 August 2016 a known suspect allegedly channelled money into three different bank accounts that were unknown to the institution. The money was for NSFAS-funded students at one of the colleges in Durban, police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said.
Hired killers âa dime a dozenâ in a cash crunch
By Mervyn Naidoo
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Durban - Experts and police remain alarmed at how âhitsâ were being ordered on wives, girlfriends, business partners and employees, usually by people who are listed as beneficiaries to insurance policies in the victimâs name.
With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the countryâs economy, theyâve noticed more victims were landing in the crosshairs of shooters.
While execution style shootings were usually the preferred method, some paying customers were opposed to a bloody end for their victims.
Like the Durban-based businessman who allegedly instructed a hitman to use minimal force when snuffing out the life of an employee, earlier this month.
Suspects nabbed with heroin worth R2.8m in Mpumalanga
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Johannesburg - Mpumalanga police seized more than R2.8 million worth of heroin and arrested two men after receiving a tip-off this week.
Mpumalanga Hawks spokesperson Captain Dineo Sekgotodi said the two suspects, aged 41 and 47, were arrested by members of the White River Dog Unit, the Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit and the Local Criminal Record Centre (LCRC).
She said they were arrested the suspects on Thursday at the Nkomazi toll plaza, around 40km east of Mbombela.
“The team acted on information that was received about a blue Ford Ranger that was reportedly transporting drugs from Mozambique to Gauteng,” Sekgotodi said in a statement on Friday.
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