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The SIU has referred an investigation into a R25 million irregular procurement of generators for the Boikhutsong pump stations in Ditsobotla Local Municipality to the Special Tribunal, after inflated pricing and procurement breaches involving Rensch Trading CC were detected
BOIKHUTSONG PUMP STATIONS

SIU flags inflated generator prices in R25m Ditsobotla contract probe

The SIU has referred a R25 million generator procurement investigation involving Ditsobotla Local Municipality to the Special Tribunal after uncovering inflated pricing,…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has raided the Sandton, Johannesburg, home of businessman Hangwani Maumela, seizing high-end vehicles and artworks as part of an R820 million asset recovery operation linked to wholesale looting at Tembisa Hospital, in Ekurhuleni. Photo: File
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Massive raid part of asset recovery in Tembisa Hospital tender fraud

The Special Investigating Unit has seized luxury vehicles and artworks worth millions from businessman Hangwani Maumela’s Joburg mansion as part of an R820 million asset recovery

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
Moo-ving money: A Special Tribunal heard that former health minister Zweli Mkhize, his wife May and their son Dedani concealed R11.5 million redirected from the Digital Vibes company during the Covid pandemic. Photo: File
CATTLE SALES

R11.5m Digital Vibes funds laundered through bogus cattle sales, SIU says

New evidence in the matter suggests that former health minister Zweli Mkhize and his family received funds funnelled through the sale of cattle and the purchase of a farm

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
6 min read
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)
BLACKLISTED DEVELOPERS

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

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
File photo: Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands over the Zondo report on state capture to President Cyril Ramaphosa. Members of the cabinet and ANC members were implicated in the report. Photo: Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

What the Ngcobo report meant for the Zondo report

The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report

  • Emsie Ferreira
9 min read
Newly appointed president of the Special Tribunal, Judge Lebogang Modiba.
COVID 19

Covid-19 corruption-busting judge is the new Special Tribunal president

Judge Lebogang Modiba, who has seized more than R500-million in alleged PPE graft, replaces Judge Mlindelwa Gidfonia Makhanya

  • Khaya Koko
2 min read
The service provider, LNG, has been ordered to pay back the profit earned from the R113.2 million PPE contract
CORRUPTION

R7.8bn corruption exposed in SIU Covid-19 corruption report

The SIU has recovered R34.2-million and is chasing a further R551.5-million of alleged graft from the government’s R152-bilion Covid-19 spend

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
Hamilton Ndlovu.
COVID 19

Special Tribunal dismisses Hamilton Ndlovu’s application to stay a review of PPE contracts awarded to him

Judge Lebogang Modiba was not persuaded by Ndlovu’s claim that the refusal of the stay application would violate his constitutional right of access to the courts

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect. / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
COVID 19

SIU still to settle civil cases totalling R6.3bn

The Special Investigating Unit has cases dating back to 2019, but rejected that this is a problem

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
Minenhle Makhanya. (Naturals Cool)
JACOB ZUMA

Nkandla architect fails to appear in court

Minenhle Makhanya was apparently waiting for the result of a Covid-19 test on Friday, forcing the postponement of the case in which the Special Tribunal seeks to recover…

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
Hamilton Ndlovu.
COVID 19

SIU shuts down Hamilton Ndlovu’s spending spree by seizing his assets

The businessman used just 13% of the millions paid to him by the National Health Laboratory Service to supply PPE — the rest was for himself

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read
Former Gauteng premier David Makhura, who runs the ANC political school, said there was a need for the party to both educate its existing members and ensure that those who joined in future were “in good standing in the community”.
BEADICA 430

Makhura’s ‘unlawful’ directive caused Gauteng R42.8m in losses, says former CFO

A March 2020 directive from the Gauteng premier is at the centre of an SIU civil case to recover money lost due to alleged unlawful procurement

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
Gauteng premier David Makhura. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
BANDILE MASUKU

Makhura ‘liable’ for R42.8m in PPE corruption

In court papers, former Gauteng health chief financial officer Kabelo Lehloenya shifted blame onto premier David Makhura for his alleged failure to prevent unlawful contracts.

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
Cleaning up: Zweli Mkhize (left) was the face of a largely good response to the pandemic, which could help explain President Cyril Ramaphosa’s (right) reluctance to act against him. (Lulama Zenzile/Gallo Images/Die Burger)
ACE MAGASHULE

ANC factions united on Zweli Mkhize

Despite agreement that it would be politically ‘unwise’ for the president to remove the health minister before the Special Tribunal makes its decision on the application by the…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
former health minister Zweli Mkhize only approved the total R132-million budget for NHI communication in March last year, 199 days after the agreement was signed. Digital Vibes only delivered Covid-19-related communications services. (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ANBAN PILLAY

ANC Integrity Committee recommends Zweli Mkhize step aside

ANC sources say the report by the committee will be tabled at the next national executive committee meeting

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
Telling all: EOH — helmed by chief executive Stephen van Coller (above) — appeared before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture and provided evidence of irregular money flows at EOH, which was unearthed by law firm ENSafrica. (Gallo Images/Papi Morake)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

‘Suspicious’ tech company EOH must pay back millions

EOH allegedly inflated prices of Microsoft licences, which could have been bought by the defence department for a third of the cost

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
The service provider, LNG, has been ordered to pay back the profit earned from the R113.2 million PPE contract
ANDY MOTHIBI

SIU to recoup some of the R13.3bn spent on corrupt PPE contracts

Criminal prosecution and civil litigation of more than R250-million is being sought against those who unduly benefited from Covid-19-related procurement

  • Khaya Koko
5 min read
Count them: Special Investigating Unit head Andy Mothibi. (Paul Botes)
ACE MAGASHULE

This is how the SIU catches crooks

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

  • Athandiwe Saba
7 min read