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A former FNB employee is accused of stealing more than R15 million from a 92-year-old woman, whose vigilance on her accounts revealed the alleged scam.
(Kyle Venktess/Fin24)

FNB employee up for fraud over R15 million moved from 92-year-old woman’s account

The now-deceased pensioner’s vigilance resulted in the scam to allegedly defraud her investment account being discovered

Senior finance officer Reginald Scholtz

Finance officers allegedly stole R20m from milling company

Reginald Scholtz and Jan van Niekerk are facing hundreds of charges for swindling the mill they worked for

Financial manager up for scamming North West maize mill of R9.1m

Reginald Scholtz allegedly created bogus companies and paid himself in more than 61 transactions

KwaZulu-Natal residents who are unemployed, financially struggling and hungry have lambasted Eskom’s proposed 36.1% tariff hike. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

‘Deplorable’ R35m Eskom fraudsters receive 20-year jail term

Bernard Moraka and Victor Tshabalala defrauded Eskom to the tune of almost R35-million over 32 months through 53 bogus transactions

Developing the sport in South Africa in the junior category for over a decade, the Royal Bafokeng nation is a growing talent pool (Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images),

Fraud case just one example of governance failings at Basketball SA

The sport body’s former national administrator allegedly stole money by substituting his own bank account details for a service provider’s

Eskom told the Mail & Guardian it had only received a R9 billion World Bank loan to decommission its coal-fired Komati power station. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Former Eskom finance controller found guilty of R35m fraud

Bernard Moraka and Victor Tshabalala, the director of a coal transport company, defrauded the power utility by claiming payments for work not done

A police forensic analyst has been found guilty of participating in an elaborate R614 851.59 fraud scheme that involved identity theft and foreign exchange crimes.

Police forensic analyst guilty of elaborate half-million-rand-plus fraud

Aphiwe Qamungwane pretended to be a Zimbabwean mining salesperson in scheme that included identity theft and foreign exchange crimes

(John McCann/M&G)

Police analyst implicated in R600k fraud scheme

But the forensic analyst has also claimed to be a victim of identity fraud