How tens of millions of rands were siphoned off under the guise of bringing the North Sea Jazz Festival to Durban.
THE HOT WINDS THAT SIGNAL political climate change may, it seems, finally be blowing through the foothills of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
But before we tell you the exciting news, a recap from nose154 of August 2012: “As, increasingly over time, shady businessmen and other criminal elements in pursuit of government contracts, favours and protection have corrupted South Africa’s politicians and infiltrated its political structures, so the politicians in power and friends in crime have made common cause in undermining the country’s law enforcement agencies.
“The word is out: to survive in the police or prosecution services you must be either very brave – or bent.
“But there is another element to the story: as faction feuds and power struggles occur in the political establishment or major areas of the economy dominated by criminals (such as Eskom), the same feuds and power struggles now invariably ripple through the law-enforcement services, where each faction has its friends.”
Noseweek related several examples in that issue – all worth re-reading today – but one is particularly relevant here: “Also in July 2012, KwaZulu-Natal's acting prosecutions head, Simphiwe Mlotshwa, was removed from his post – supposedly in line with government policy which does not allow for someone to hold a senior post in an “acting” position for more than 12 months. (He had already been there for 18 months, without comment or complaint from anyone.)
“It is widely accepted, however, that Mlotshwa was removed from the post because of his determination to prosecute KZN Premier Zweli Mkhize for his role in the “Three Amigos” fraud case – the Three Amigos being Economic Development MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, former Health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni (who subsequently became Speaker in the KZN legislature) and South American businessman Gaston Savoi.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 2018 من Noseweek.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Lennie The Liquidator Faces R500,000 Defamation Suit
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned
Panel Beater De Luxe
Danmar Autobody and its erstwhile directors get a serious panel beating in court papers. Corruption and theft are said to have destroyed the firm chaired by Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, leaving 200 workers destitute and threatening to kill.
Meet Covid Diarist Ronald Wohlman
Ronald Wohlman – EX SOUTH African copywriter, author, and actor – never dreamt that his lockdown diaries, written on Facebook and followed by people all over the world – would become his “life’s work”.
A Picture Of Peace?
Beware: Appearances can be deceptive
Flogging A (Battery-Driven) Dead Horse
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be– and, likely, never will be
Everybody Drinks Corona
I am hesitant to go Into the pub today. Not because it’s illegal, but there is a crème colored 1985 Mercedes 300D parked behind the pine tree. This means the devil is inside; that’s what we call Dr. De Villiers. You don’t know whether you will encounter the good doctor with the charming bedside manner or the violent, bipolar bully. The problem is, most of the time, you can never be sure which it is, so it’s best to always keep a social distance.
Never Take A Hypochondriac To A Pandemic
From Ronald Wohlman’s New York Corona Diary
The money train
Transnet in court battle with liquidators of Gupta-linked audit firm over R57m in ‘corrupt’ payments and invoices
‘He's no pharmaceutical genius, he's a vulture'
Pharma con seeks prison release to ‘help find Covid cure’
Bush school – A memoir
OUR SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE of the bush, ten miles from the nearest town in the harsh beauty of the Zimbabwean highveld. It started life in World War II as No 26 EFTS Guinea Fowl, a Royal Air Force elementary flying training school and I arrived there in 1954, just seven years after it became an all-white co-ed state boarding school.
