President Cyril Ramaphosa has ramped up his efforts to combat corruption by granting the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) the authority to investigate significant claims of mismanagement and illegal activities at two important state entities, the Department of Home Affairs and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). Proclamation 154 of 2024 gives the SIU extensive authority to probe various suspected irregularities at Home Affairs, including dodgy visas, citizenship rights, and the firewalls scandal. SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said an…

Prominent South Africans could be in hot water after ongoing Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigations into the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) revealed potential misappropriation of R1.4 billion in public funds through corrupt activities. The second phase of the SIU investigation was made before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, bringing attention to important discoveries that are significant in South Africa’s ongoing battle against corruption. The report specifically focuses on individuals of high prominence who…

The SABC’s interim board has lost an appeal to review a damning Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report that implicated them in unlawfully awarding a R185 million tender to Mafoko Security Patrols over five years ago. The interim board members – Khanyisile Kweyana, Mathatha Tsedu, Febe Potgieter-Gqubule, and John Matisohn – were appointed in April 2017. They approached the Johannesburg High Court intending to review and set aside an SIU report recommending they be rendered delinquent directors under the Companies Act.…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it’s increasingly optimistic about reclaiming monies from individuals implicated in dodgy procurement transactions pertaining to South Africa’s Covid-19 response initiative. Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson for the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), expressed his profound appreciation for the recent triumph, wherein the Special Tribunal granted them an order preventing a former government official from accessing his pension. The order effectively freezes a substantial sum of R2 million from the pension fund belonging to Tshegofatso Daniel Moralo, a…

The Special Tribunal has frozen several bank accounts belonging to a KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) National Lotteries Commission (NLC) official and his wife, who are accused of using 400 daycare centers and football clubs to siphon R32 million from the gambling entity. The interim order was initially granted on August 16, 2023, but has now been varied to include restraining and interdicting the couple, Sibonelo Vilakazi and Nosipho Zanele Zuma, as well as any other person with knowledge of the order, from…

A construction company under investigation for tender fraud and corruption in the North West has scored a R8 million contract in Limpopo.  Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL), a provincial parastatal, awarded Ndhuna Civil Engineering Services the multi-million contract to re-gravel the road between Ga-Mokgwathi and Dzumeri in Mopani in May this year.  The contractor abandoned multimillion projects in Rustenburg and Zeerust in 2021.  Ndhuna is under investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), parliamentary committees in the North West Legislature and…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has weighed in on the Ndhuna Civil Engineering Services’ controversial R134 million Khunotswana contract. It has requested all documents related to the tender as part of a planned investigation into fraud and corruption in the North West.  In a letter sent to Vuisile Joba Dliso, the chairperson of the North West Legislature’s Provincial Public Accounts Committee (PPAC), the SIU in the province requested copies of all records submitted to the committee by the North West…

A North West politician has called for the suspension of the head of the Department of Roads and Public Works, Moses Ikgopoleng Kgantsi, for his role in the awarding of a R134 million contract to a contractor who previously abandoned two projects.  James Gadinabokao, the president of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) GATVOL, said Kgantsi should be suspended, and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) be cleared by President Cyril Ramaphosa to get to the bottom of tender irregularities, fraud and corruption…

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has successfully prevented the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) from Investigating allegations that he participated in a fraudulent scheme that resulted in undeserving students being awarded tertiary qualifications at the University of Fort Hare (UFH). Mabuyane took the SIU to court when it broadened a presidential proclamation to investigate academic qualifications fraud at the university based in Alice. The premier, who is also the ANC chairperson in the province, took the matter to court after feeling…

Former Eskom chief executive officer Andre De Ruyter has landed in hot water after the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), also known as the Hawks, revealed that he reported his corruption claims to law enforcement agencies a day before briefing the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) two weeks ago. The revelations suggest that De Ruyter had “prioritised “spilling the beans” in his television interview with eNCA back in February over his legal obligation, as Eskom boss, to report…