weekly newspaper. 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.