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…

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…

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…