Saths Cooper, vice-chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW), and deputy vice-chancellor Lionel Nicholas, received a R174 000 interim statement of account last month from an unregistered security company. The precise services for which the company charged remain unclear.

Allegations of long-standing fraud and rampant financial mismanagement in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education have surfaced again, this time with questions about the use of R700-million — nearly a tenth of the province’s education budget.