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State capture update: hope after recent spate of arrests, charges

14 Oct 2022, 13:06

A lengthy state ban on international consultancy giant; a former cabinet minister and member of parliament in court, multiple arrests in the North West transport scandal and changes to the final state capture report. All developments making headlines recently as the wheels of justice begin to turn in government’s response to the findings and recommendations Read more >

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Mosebenzi Zwane, two others arrested as NPA keeps Guptas in sight

29 Sep 2022, 9:47

Source: Legalbrief The National Prosecuting Authority is injecting new life into its Estina Dairy Project investigation with yesterday’s arrest of former mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane, Sahara employee Ugeshni Govender and a former director of Islandsite, Ronica Ragavan, as it attempts to extradite Atul and Rajesh Gupta on the same matter, while targeting other associates linked to the fugitive family, notes Legalbrief. Read more >

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Former FS housing HOD sentenced for corruption

29 Nov 2021, 10:08

A former head of department in the Free State government, Mpho Mokoena, was handed a 15-year suspended sentence for corruption by the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Mokoena headed up the provincial human settlements department from 2009 to 2011. His sentencing followed a guilty plea relating to offences he committed while in office, reporting to Read more >

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‘They eat money’: corruption feeds Mandela’s political heirs

17 Apr 2018, 9:32

By Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan First published in the New York Times With loudspeakers blaring, city officials drove across the black township’s dirt roads in a pickup truck, summoning residents to the town hall in Vrede, Free State province. The main guest was a local figure who had soared up the ranks of the Read more >

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CW calls for removal of Adv Mkhwebane from office

06 Mar 2018, 16:15

Despite increasing questions from the public about the ability of Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane to fulfill her role as an independent public protector, Corruption Watch has been prepared to give her the opportunity to settle into a difficult position, and show her willingness to stand up to political pressure under the Zuma administration. However, after a Read more >

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CW welcomes Hawks’ arrest of Vrede scandal suspects

14 Feb 2018, 14:26

Corruption Watch applauds the Hawks’ morning raid on the Gupta compound, and the subsequent arrests in relation to the Vrede dairy farm investigations, including that of Ajay Gupta. Also arrested was Free State’s agriculture department head, Peter Thabethe. The organisation has repeatedly called for those implicated in multiple corruption scandals to be held accountable and Read more >

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PP’s Vrede dairy farm report dubbed ‘whitewash’

14 Feb 2018, 10:18

By Kwazi Dlamini On Friday 9 February the Office of the Public Protector unexpectedly released the much anticipated report on the Vrede dairy farm. The report was anticipated not only because it implicated some senior ANC officials and the controversial Gupta family, but also because citizens have been waiting for the report for three years. Read more >

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State capture report calls for commission of inquiry

03 Nov 2016, 7:36

The long-awaited state capture report was released yesterday, and one of the outcomes was the instruction by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that President Jacob Zuma must appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture. However, Zuma is not to choose the commissioner – that task falls to South Africa’s chief justice. State of Read more >