‘The dirtiest politician in SA?”, “Mabona: the family connection”, “Mabona, million-buck man”. These were some of the headlines that accompanied a series of Mail & Guardian stories in the past few months.
The stories revealed questionable dealings between Mpumalanga’s public works minister Steve Mabona and shady businessman Walter Senoko and his company, Positioning Corporate Underwriters and Insurance Consultants (PCUIC). They also revealed how a company connected to Mabona got a multimillion-rand contract from his department — as did companies associated with a Mabona relative.
Yet the government probe that followed the M&G exposÃ