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Former VBS chief operating officer Robert Madzonga’s wife Khosi’s Instagram account is filled with images of conspicuous consumption. Meanwhile thousands of Limpopo residents have lost their life savings. (Instagram)

Court bid to freeze VBS’s R80m

Community schemes service says money meant for VBS went into an FNB account

Ralliom Razwinane (Twitter)

Home ombud advised to lay charges

The CSOS has been asked to lay attempted theft charges against a service provider who deposited the agency’s funds into his own company’s account

Loss claim: CSOS was advised to take civil action to recover money lost in an unapproved investment in VBS bank. (Delwyn Verasamy)

R80m VBS loss for homes ombud

A forensic report has found the Community Scheme Ombud Service investment was reckless

The fate of private commercial deposits with VBS is also in serious doubt, most notably that of about R370-million in funds meant for widows and orphans of former mineworkers. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

VBS: How far will state’s bill stretch?

The total amount is yet to tallied but could reach billions and could hit taxpayers in the pocket

The new ticket, on Emirates Airways, cost an extra R67?000 and the CSOS’s suspended acting chief ombud, Seeng Letele, used the parastatal’s corporate card to pay for it.

Ombud PA sits pretty in business class

​A personal assistant at the troubled state-owned Community Schemes Ombudsman Services flew business class during a state-sponsored trip to Australia.

Mail & Guardian reader Jairam Reddy writes that Nomaindia Mfeketo, the human settlements minister, needs to take action on the Community Schemes Ombud Service. (Shelley Christians/The Times)

Letters to the Editor: September 7 to 13

Our readers write in about the Community Schemes Ombud Service, food fraud, and about abandoning the M&G

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Minister intervenes in community schemes shambles

​Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo has ordered an independent investigator to look into the affairs of the beleaguered CSOS

(Carl Fourie/Gallo Images)

Housing schemes regulator goes from bad to worse

The CSOS said the two were alleged to have been grossly negligent by investing surplus funds with VBS

CSOS finance head Themba Mabuya and chief ombud advocate Seeng Letele have been given 24 hours to account for a raft of financial irregularities.

Senior CSOS staffers suspended for VBS deposit

Chief Ombud Seeng Letele and Chief Financial Officer Themba Mabuya have been given 24 hours to account for a raft of financial irregularities

Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo had red-flagged an investment made by one of her department’s entities in a scandal-hit bank that is now under curatorship.

New ombud in hot water over VBS

A housing scheme regulator invested R80m in the troubled bank. Now the minister has stepped in

Ombud to solve neighbourly spats

Body corporates and other communal living schemes will get their own CCMA to keep the peace in the form of the Community Schemes Ombud Service.