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/ 12 December 2003
Statistician General Pali Lehohla’s taste for expensive houses, with at least four traced so far, has prompted a high-level corruption investigation into his affairs.
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has tasked the Public Service Commission (PSC) with discreetly probing Lehohla’s financial affairs to ensure that his property nest egg is not bankrolled by bribes or other irregular income.
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/ 31 October 2003
Mpumalanga strongman Steve Mabona doesn’t like being trifled with. His violent temper and sharp tongue are legendary, with not even uniformed cops or magistrates safe from public tongue-lashings.
Mpumalanga’s hardline health MEC Sibongile Manana may have finally met her match. The defiant former nurse has endured a string of sordid corruption scandals and last week stunned commentators by surviving an open revolt by African National Congress legislators who branded her department a national disgrace.
The flamboyant tycoon behind Mpumalanga’s infamous R50-billion Dolphin Deal has been arrested in Kenya after almost a decade on the run.
The 30-year deal spearheaded by Britain’s BiWater and signed in Mpumalanga’s capital Nelspruit in 1999 was supposed to rapidly expand basic water services into the region’s impoverished villages without placing a financial burden on the taxpayer.
Cape plc will pay out only a third of the amount promised to the victims of its local asbestos-mining operations. The dramatic reduction will, Meeran warned, prevent any compensation for future victims of asbestos pollution or other exposure at Cape’s abandoned mines. However, South African investment holding company Gencor is supplementing the settlement
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/ 10 February 2003
Lawyers for South Africa’s asbestos victims intend using their victory against mining giants Gencor and Gefco as a precedent for suing the country’s even larger gold mines. Attorney Richard Spoor said that about 500 000 gold miners had been abandoned penniless.
Sunday Times Deputy Managing Editor, Politics, Mondli Makhanya has been appointed editor of the Mail & Guardian, the newspaper’s chairperson and chief executive, Trevor Ncube said.
SA is being sued for more than R1-billion by a group of United States bankers and businessmen who claim to have been defrauded by rogue apartheid-era spies.
POLITICAL grandstanding and greed are threatening the world’s biggest game reserve, a key prestige project of the South African government