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Khaya Koko

Khaya Koko is a journalist with a penchant for reading through legal documents braving the ravages of cold court benches to expose the crooked. He writes about social justice and human-interest stories. Most importantly, he is a card-carrying member of the Mighty Orlando Pirates.

Auditor general Tsakani Maluleke has repeatedly made recommendations to improve municipalities’ performances but to little effect. Photo: GCIS

Government wasted R38 billion in overspending, auditor general says

A disregard for the rule of law also saw the country lose R14 billion through payment of goods not received

Engineering machinery at the Katlehong Engineering School. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Township school trains learners to be drone pilots, engineers

By focusing on scarce skills, the Katlehong schoolchildren are being primed to have a competitive edge in the job market

Prasa, through the rolling stock recapitalisation programme, procured new rolling
stock for its Metro Rail operations as part of its long-term modernisation strategy.
(Delwyn Verasamy)

Prasa faces R5.1 billion legal case for unpaid debts

The rail agency has ignored a Pretoria high court-ordered report for it to pay its contractor

Prasa, through the rolling stock recapitalisation programme, procured new rolling
stock for its Metro Rail operations as part of its long-term modernisation strategy.
(Delwyn Verasamy)

Prasa ‘negligence’ leads to damage to R5.1 billion infrastructure

A high court report found that negligence in the rail agency’s integrated security project resulted in widespread theft and vandalism

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.

Lesufi ‘sat on’ dignity pack fraud report

The project was meant to supply dignity packs to girls and women at no-fee schools and colleges

The R28.1 million was for the city to service the stands, whereafter eThekwini would sell the land to private companies that would build houses. (File photo)

SIU chases R28 million in eThekwini social housing corruption

The unit told parliament how municipal land was ceded to private developers, who sold it on for a profit

The MEC said he had never received any funds from Pule Mabe. (Photo: X)

Gauteng Education MEC Chiloane implicated in Pule Mabe’s R27 million fraud case

The provincial government leader allegedly received R185 000 from the spoils of the tender

Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng premier and co-convenor of the ANC in the province. Photo: X

Lesufi allegedly buried forensic report into R273 million school uniform corruption

The premier said he had released the report into the matter, but would not say when or where

ANC NEC member Pule Mabe at the Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Wednesday. (Delwyn Verasamy/MG)

NPA claims Pule Mabe and wife shared spoils of ‘fraudulent’ R27million tender

The senior ANC member allegedly controlled the bank account of the catering company that received the lucrative vehicle supply contract

Pule Mabe. File photo

Pule Mabe says he will plead not guilty in R27m tender fraud case

Mabe conceded that he may lose his NEC position due to the ANC’s step-aside resolution

Silent: Limpopo police commissioner Thembi Hadebe was told about fraudster Howard Mashaba’s harassment of a tenant. Photo: X/SAPS

Top cop ‘didn’t act against eviction’ by fraudster Howard Mashaba

The provincial police commissioner is the latest to be implicated in the fraudster’s contentious new hotel

SACP  general secretary Solly Mapaila dismissed the notion of any alignment with MK. (Photo by Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Korner Talk | Solly Mapaila still riding his high horse

The South African Communist Party leader continues his tirade against alliance partner ANC for bringing the Democratic Alliance into the unity government

Alfred Nzo district municipality mayor Vukile Mhlelembana. (

Failing Eastern Cape municipality spends just 13% of R123m infrastructure grant

Premier Oscar Mabuyane has been urged to act against Alfred Nzo municipality’s mayor, Vukile Mhlelembana

Removed: Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images)

Korner Talk | The Democratic Alliance’s brinkmanship

Unlike the ousted Tshwane mayor, the DA ditched former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse like Ultra Mel custard on a Skhothane teenager’s Carvela shoes

Serial fraudster: Howard Mashaba claimed Deputy President Paul Mashatile and billionaire Patrice Motsepe would be at the opening of his new hotel, which is state property and thus falls under the portfolio of Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson.

Swindler Howard Mashaba hijacks a state building

The public works minister allegedly knew the convicted fraudster had demolished government property in Limpopo and built a hotel

Renaldo Gouws.

COLUMN: Cabanac and Gouws, racism’s Distruction Boyz

The pod bros will revive their mission to kill non-racialism and feed it to the pigs

Lucky Montana, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa former chief executive (Photo by Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

SIU guns for former Prasa boss Lucky Montana over R3.5bn ‘corrupt’ rail tender

The Special Investigation Unit also has its sight on former finance deputy minister Sfiso Buthelezi, whose company allegedly received R110 million fraudulently

The MK party has removed Mzwanele Manyi as its chief whip in the National Assembly, less than a year after his appointment.

Korner Talk: Manyi the political sex worker

The former EFF MP’s list of political parties is longer than self-proclaimed prophet Mboro’s dirty nails.

The City of Johannesburg granted the R196 million tender to repair Lilian Ngoyi Street after last July’s deadly explosion to a company on trial for defrauding municipal entity City Power of nearly R94 million. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Joburg gave R200m tender to firm facing fraud charges of R94m

The city confirmed that repairs to Lilian Ngoyi Street, formerly Bree, will now be completed in May 2025 instead of December this year

Trouble brewing: Loyiso Masuku, the ANC’s Johannesburg deputy regional secretary; the party’s regional chairperson Dada Morero and Sasabona Manganye, its regional secretary in the city. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images

ANC ‘lies’ exposed in R1.3 billion corruption cover-up

Evidence suggests that the ANC in Joburg knew about leaders’ ‘capture’ of the city’s entities