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Especially egregious: In 2020, ordinary people donated food and sanitary products to fill a void left by the South African Social Security Agency’s bungling of aid distribution, for which it budgeted R45.5-million. This was beset by corruption and non-delivery, and for which it has yet to experience legal sanction. Photo: ER Lombard/Gallo Images
BENDALO HOLDINGS

NPA fails to deal with R7.8bn in Covid-19 corruption

Not ‘trial ready’: 386 Special Investigating Unit referrals lead to just one case in court so far

  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
Hamilton Ndlovu.
COVID 19

Special Tribunal dismisses Hamilton Ndlovu’s application to stay a review of PPE contracts awarded to him

Judge Lebogang Modiba was not persuaded by Ndlovu’s claim that the refusal of the stay application would violate his constitutional right of access to the courts

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect. / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
COVID 19

SIU still to settle civil cases totalling R6.3bn

The Special Investigating Unit has cases dating back to 2019, but rejected that this is a problem

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
Hamilton Ndlovu.
COVID 19

SIU shuts down Hamilton Ndlovu’s spending spree by seizing his assets

The businessman used just 13% of the millions paid to him by the National Health Laboratory Service to supply PPE — the rest was for himself

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read