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Silent: Limpopo police commissioner Thembi Hadebe was told about fraudster Howard Mashaba’s harassment of a tenant. Photo: X/SAPS
DEAN MACPHERSON

Top cop ‘didn’t act against eviction’ by fraudster Howard Mashaba

The provincial police commissioner is the latest to be implicated in the fraudster’s contentious new hotel

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
Serial fraudster: Howard Mashaba claimed Deputy President Paul Mashatile and billionaire Patrice Motsepe would be at the opening of his new hotel, which is state property and thus falls under the portfolio of Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson.
DEAN MACPHERSON

Swindler Howard Mashaba hijacks a state building

The public works minister allegedly knew the convicted fraudster had demolished government property in Limpopo and built a hotel

  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
The intricate investigation details how Howard Mashaba’s elderly parents have become economically ostracised after their son used their names to open businesses which got into trouble over unpaid debts and a string of purportedly fraudulent acts. Graphic: John McCann
ARTICLE

Fraudster Howard Mashaba gets a R40 000 suspended fine for contempt

The state prosecutor had argued for imprisonment, saying Mashaba had no respect for the rule of law

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
4 min read
The intricate investigation details how Howard Mashaba’s elderly parents have become economically ostracised after their son used their names to open businesses which got into trouble over unpaid debts and a string of purportedly fraudulent acts. Graphic: John McCann
ARTICLE

Fraudster Howard Mashaba’s ‘escape’ attempt stopped by the FBI

Investigating officer Scotch Tabane says Mashaba, who is also the subject of a R34 million SIU investigation, is also a suspect in two cases of arson and one of attempted murder

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
6 min read
The intricate investigation details how Howard Mashaba’s elderly parents have become economically ostracised after their son used their names to open businesses which got into trouble over unpaid debts and a string of purportedly fraudulent acts. Graphic: John McCann
BENNY MAYENGANI

R34m Limpopo lotto graft probe

A crook that the prosecuting authority failed to arrest is at the centre of a fresh scam – this time involving state funds

  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
HOWARD MASHABA

NPA defies court order in R22m fraud case

The authority seems to have dragged its feet in the arrest of a convicted criminal

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read