Over the past fortnight, the African National Congress has maintained that R11-million it received before last year’s elections was an ordinary donation from a private company. But Imvume Management was no ordinary private company, judging by its chief executive’s CV.
Beleaguered arms company Denel is facing a new round of pressures following press reports in India that the ministry of defence has scrapped a multibillion-rand deal to buy South African G-6 howitzers. The doubt cast over the Indian deal will add to the headaches of incoming Denel CEO Sean Liebenberg, who has been brought into turn around the ailing parastatal.
The Scorpions are probing whether part of a R100-million sweetener paid to a Saudi Arabian agent by arms manufacturer Denel has flowed back to South Africa in the form of kickbacks. Possible recipients included in the inquiry are former directors and officials of Denel, the late defence minister Joe Modise, the African National Congress, and well-known ANC fund-raiser and a confidant of Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Surtee.
Documents obtained by the Mail & Guardian belie claims by former Vista University administrative chief Reuben Mbuli that there was no conflict of interest when he accepted a hefty ”retainer” from a businessman trying to secure work from the university. These documents rubbish claims that the ”retainer” was received for private legal work, as Mbuli claimed in a letter to the M&G a fortnight ago.
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/ 25 February 2005
The downfall of Jim Miller, a British-born technology salesman, may be his frankness. When a partner objected to his large expense claims, he admitted to paying what amounted to kickbacks. Miller started working for a United States technology company in South Africa in 1974. When it divested he set up local operations to fill the gap.
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/ 25 February 2005
An IT group close to the Inkatha Freedom Party has been implicated in a web of corruption spanning the outsourcing of a university’s IT functions and a controversial tender to monitor ”corner shop” gambling machines in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 5 November 2004
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Serious questions about the contract to supply South Africa’s controversial credit-card style driver’s licences have emerged from evidence at the Durban High Court trial of Schabir Shaik. Shaik’s Nkobi group has a one-third share in the Prodiba consortium that was awarded the contract by the Department of Transport in October 1996.
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/ 22 October 2004
It was the revenge of the secretaries at the Shaik trial this week.
Sam Sole argues that the corruption claims flowing from that deal have exposed a threat to South Africa’s democratic project.
Prosecution documents repeat claim that the deputy president was a conscious party to corruption.