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A judgment handed down in the North Gauteng High Court last week details how officials in the Limpopo Provincial Treasury awarded fraudulent tenders to an IT consortium called Magnum Simplex International back in 2003.
The case was brought to court by then provincial finance MEC Sa’ad Cachalia in 2009, alongside head of department Rob Tooley.
According to court documents the MEC, on behalf of the department, sought repayment from Magnum Simplex of close to R98.5-million (with interest) and the cancellation of two fraudulently awarded tender contracts.
The court did not determine the total amount of money that was fraudulently obtained altogether.
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The state capture commission’s week of evidence related to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) saw everything from damming revelations of political meddling in the agency’s affairs, to money flows evidence relating to the controversial R3.5-billi
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”.
(Zondo Commission) after the North Gauteng High Court granted it a three-month extension until June 2021.
Interestingly, on the other hand, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in his Budget speech on 24 February 2021 vowed not to give any further money to the commission to finish its work during the extended period. This is now the second year running of it not getting money since the extra R272.9-million allocated in 2019.
To rub salt in the wounds, the disrespect the commission has been worried about came to fruition when another key witness, the director of Swifambo Rail, Auswell Mashaba, defied it.
According to Mboweni, “this perpetual extension… is not really conducive – they must finish their work”. If only pushing processes to finality as soon as possible was the approach of the government and/or its ministers in their different portfolios, South Africa would have been a better place with regard to service delivery.