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President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Time for Ramaphosa to boot the costly dead wood in the cabinet

In addition to the looting of Covid-19 emergency funds released in terms of the 2020 state of national disaster, Ramaphosa’s term has been marked by a series of acts of financial…

Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. (Jeffrey Abrahams)

Bathabile Dlamini one of the axed in major housing entity shake-up

Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appoints new boards because the structures were ‘wracked with infighting, rapid and frequent leadership changes, poor governance, corruption and loss of…

(Image: SABC)

The R15.3-million Limpopo ‘shack’ tender was earned fraudulently – SIU

The SIU is trying to recover R2.5-million from a housing tender as part of its investigation into corruption during the Covid-19 state of disaster

Tangled web: Corruption-accused Edwin Sodi was still a director of NPR Projects when it was granted a tender to build temporary shelters at Duncan Village, although Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said this was not the case. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sisulu, Sodi in R300m SIU corruption investigation

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu denies she knew fraud-accused Edwin Sodi’s company won ‘Covid’ housing tenders

Lindiwe Sisulu
(2004-09; 2014-18
and 2019-21). (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sisulu’s multimillion-rand housing ‘corruption’ headache in the Eastern Cape

National treasury and SIU flag gross misconduct in minister’s department with no heads rolling as millions keep disappearing

Sisulu dissolves housing agency board, again

The HDA is once again under administration, and its acting chief executive gets to stay on

On Wednesday, the human settlements, water and sanitation minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, under whose department the HDA falls, fired its acting chief executive, Mikki Xayiya, and its chief financial officer, Brian Mosehla.
. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sisulu axes HDA bosses

Top executives fired a year after being appointed

Spread out: The Housing Development Agency built temporary residential units at the Mamelodi Hostels to reduce density, but there have been complaints of poor quality. (Photo by Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius)

‘Shack’ agency remains leaderless

Former Mvelaphanda head gets another six months at the helm of the Housing Development Agency

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (David Harrison)

Housing agency board axed as Sisulu cleans house

Clean-out comes after new minister says her predecessor did not take her board choices to cabinet for approval

Building of RDPs is in jeopardy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

State calls housing agency to order

Funding has been cut over a slew of problems at the body meant to ensure low-cost homes

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Unembargoed: January 25 to 31

Bosasa’s ‘blocker’— EXPOSED: Tom Moyane’s role in preventing the company from being blacklisted by the government

ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘Minister caused HDA board crisis’

Former chairperson Mavuso Msimang says Nomaindia Mfeketo was warned, but did nothing

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Unembargoed: January 18 to 24

Bosasa and the bribery ‘cult’: Bank vaults of cash, the ‘orders of chicken’ and Dudu Myeni. How state capture involved so much more than the Guptas

Too little, too late: Chief executive Pascal Moloi is accused of protecting the alleged perpetrators by not ordering an investigation

‘Boys’ club’ sex fiefdom exposed

Investigators have been scathing about Housing Development Agency executives

Zingaphi Martin (née Matanzima) dances with her husband Mocumi at Bloemfontein’s Pepper Tree Venue and Guesthouse

State-paid wedding plan blows up

According to emails, a housing agency spin doctor allegedly attempted to use the cost of a bogus conference to help to pay for her big day

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Unembargoed: December 14 to 20

The great housing heist: ‘Widescale looting’ leaves government agency whose job it is to build houses for the poor with an R11m deficit

Nomaindia Mfeketo may place the Housing Development Agency under administration. (Moeletsi Mabe/Times/Gallo Images)

Roof caves in on housing agency

Executives suspended, reinstated, suspended; the board’s chair removed; corruption; sex-for-jobs claims – and there’s that R11-million deficit

Legal rows stall Cape housing progress

The battle over the transfer of more than 1000ha of prime Western Cape land to the Housing Development Agency is delaying a range of housing projects