A FORMER project consultant of the controversial Mpumalanga Development Corporation (MDC) appeared for the second time in the Nelspruit District Court on Monday on fraud charges amounting to R1-million. The case against Mafa Obed Maseko, 44, of Kamagugu near Nelspruit was postponed and he is out on R5_000 bail. He has not yet been asked to plead in connection with making out 61 cheques to a bogus building contractor between December 15, 1994, and April 22, 1999. Maseko resigned from the MDC last year, which has been renamed the Mpumalanga Economic Empowerment Corporation as part of a R60-million restructuring exercise that took three years and was aimed at eliminating corruption within the organisation. – African Eye News Service
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