Special Investigating Unit (SIU)

SA Is Making Progress To Exit The FATF Grey List And Requires Collective Action

While South Africa is making steady progress in its efforts to be removed from the…

Ramaphosa Grants SIU Permission To Investigate Home Affairs, PRASA

President Cyril Ramaphosa has ramped up his efforts to combat corruption by granting the Special…

Ex-Mpumalanga Official Denied Pension Over Dodgy R19m Covid-19 Tender

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it’s increasingly optimistic about reclaiming monies from individuals implicated…

Lotteries Official, Wife ‘Used 400 Daycare Centers To Steal R32m In Two Years’

The Special Tribunal has frozen several bank accounts belonging to a KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) National Lotteries…

Corruption-Accused Ndhuna Scores Big In Limpopo 

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…

SIU Weighs In On R134M Ndhuna Tender 

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…

SIU Takes Hammering In Mabuyane Fake Qualifications Saga

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…

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