Gangster State
spent virtually none of its allocation from the national fiscus. If the province could not spend its money, the new premier’s ad ...
bids, 252 either had bid compliance issues, such as not possessing a valid tax clearance certificate, or had failed to ‘meet the ...
Through Operation Hlasela, which was run out of the premier’s office, Magashule exerted control over departments like the FSHS, ...
plates beneath the perpetually divided ruling party were moving once again. The ANC’s 2012 national conference lay in the not-to ...
Several FSHS sources told me there were ‘zero tender processes’ followed for any of these contracts. They claimed that, through ...
year, over R 600 million was paid to materials suppliers,^23 and about R 500 million was paid to building contractors. According ...
communities witnessed RDP projects grinding to a halt right in front of their eyes as the inexperienced contractors started runn ...
for agriculture, he took with him two of the department’s most senior financial officials, Seipati Dlamini, the chief financial ...
angry about was the shortage of decent housing in their area.^28 In July, police were again called in to disperse angry proteste ...
Several sources, including department insiders and other government officials, former Magashule allies and some FSHS contractors ...
wrongdoing, but they couldn’t be held accountable alone.’ But Zwane and Mokoena, former MEC and HOD respectively, were of course ...
National Urban Reconstruction and Housing Agency (NURCHA), an arm of the national Department of Human Settlements, there was no ...
9 Fall guys and fat cats Magashule must have been relieved that Sexwale was no longer around to scrutinise his province’s housin ...
It was therefore difficult, if indeed possible at all, to determine which contractor had been responsible for what. The difficul ...
manager.^8 So, not only did the department fail to lay charges against the alleged culprits, but the province and the local met ...
I asked Peet Pieterse, Open Water’s CEO, about his partner’s meetings with Magashule. He replied: ‘Mr Nkondo cannot recall the p ...
firm and the then premier prevailed. One of my sources told me Open Water’s chairman, Nkondo, married Rooksana Moola, a staffer ...
the SIU’s investigative efforts. ‘We were told by the department that Open Water took computers, documents and other records,’ t ...
appointed approximately a year before Open Water was appointed and one would expect that after such an extended period they woul ...
scene. ‘The prepayments matter relating to material suppliers were investigated by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU),’ he sa ...
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