/ 20 October 1999

JAILS BOSS’s ACCOUNT FROZEN

A BANK account of Correctional Services Commissioner Khulekani Sitole has been frozen following the start of an investigation into allegations that he abused department finances, SABC radio reports. The report said the First National Bank in Vrede in the Free State decided to freeze Sitole’s account after the branch manager read news reports that Parliament was investigating allegations that Sitole mismanaged and misused department funds. Sitole discovered his account had been frozen when the bank failed to honour a cheque.