The Mpumalanga couple arrested in November 2023 for allegedly mining coal on a farm in the frigid town of Carolina suffered more setback when their eight Namibian bank accounts with a stash of R52 million were seized by authorities. The accounts belong to Jacobus Hosea Jordaan and his wife Elza Jordaan.  The seizure of the bank accounts was a result of joint work by the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Asset Forfeiture Unit, the South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre (SA-FIC), the…

Law enforcement authorities have obtained a preservation order preventing former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) chairperson Alfred Nevhutanda and others from using properties and luxury vehicles bought with money siphoned from the lottery fund. The order follows a series of investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) that uncovered fraud and corruption valued at approximately R344 million. The probes found that board members, senior employees, their family members and friends enriched themselves with NLC grants allocated for projects to assist in…