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Oct
24
2020
By The African Mirror
Former Malawian minister jailed for corruption

Former Malawian minister jailed for corruption

NEWS
FRANK PHIRI A former Malawian cabinet minister has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption, the first conviction of a high-ranking official of the former administration since new President Lazarus Chakwera won office on an anti-graft campaign. Chakwera unseated former leader Peter Mutharika in a June 23 re-run election after the 2019 poll was overturned by a court due to irregularities. The re-run came after weeks of rare street protests against the ruling party over the elections and corruption accusations. The High Court in Lilongwe sentenced the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) powerful minister of home affairs…
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Oct
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Four ex-top Gauteng officials bust for R1.2-billion tender fraud

Four ex-top Gauteng officials bust for R1.2-billion tender fraud

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FOUR former senior Gauteng Health Department officials have been arrested in connection with fraud, corruption and money laundering in connection with an irregular R1,2-billion information technology tender. Former head of department Sybil Ngcobo, Mmakgosi Mosupi (former director of information and communication), Valdis Ramaano (former head of supply chain) and Obakeng Moekeletsi (former deputy director-general), were arrested by The Hawks and have appeared in the Palm Ridge Commercial Crimes Court, where they were granted bail. The state alleges that in 2007,  the four were involved in criminal activities which resulted in a tender for R57-millions ballooning to R1.2-bilion…
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Oct
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Angola takes assets from two generals close to former president

Angola takes assets from two generals close to former president

NEWS
ANGOLAN prosecutors have taken control of assets ranging from factories to residences belonging to two close allies of former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, state news agency ANGOP said, in the latest move in a crackdown on alleged corruption. Manuel "Kopelipa" Helder Vieira Dias Jr ANGOP said that Manuel "Kopelipa" Helder Vieira Dias Jr, once head of the presidency's military bureau, and Leopoldino Fragoso do Nascimento, a retired general and businessman known as General Dino, had handed over the assets voluntarily. Reuters was not able to reach Vieira Dias Jr for comment. Do Nascimento did not immediately respond to a…
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Oct
13
2020
By The African Mirror
Police general “received gifts and a R400 000 kickback”

Police general “received gifts and a R400 000 kickback”

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER “Nobody is above the law,” declared South Africa’s national police commissioner General Khehla Sitole on the day one of his deputies appeared in court, charged with fraud and corruption. Lieutenant-General Bonang Mgwenya, the deputy national commissioner for human resources has joined nine other top police officers in dock where they are charged with criminality in relation to an irregular R191-million ”blue lights tender”. Mgwenya is now the 13th suspect and the 9th police officer who have been arrested and appeared in court in connection with a 2017 multi-million rand tender fraud to purchase blue lights and radios…
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Oct
06
2020
By The African Mirror
“Asbestos Seven case”: State seizes 25 cars, including a Ferrari, Rolls Royce and Bentley from fraud and corruption suspect

“Asbestos Seven case”: State seizes 25 cars, including a Ferrari, Rolls Royce and Bentley from fraud and corruption suspect

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER Luxury sports cars worth hundreds of millions of rands - including a Ferrari FF, a Rolls Royce Ghost Family Dawn and Bentley Continental GT Sports Convertible were among the 25 vehicles taken from fraud and corruption suspect Edwin Sodi, the businessman on a R500 000 bail. The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU), pounced and attached the vehicles at the Bryanston, Johannesburg headquarters of Blackhead Consulting, a company owned by Sodi (47) who is on trial, with six others for fraud and corruption relating to an R255-million asbestos tender. The vehicles were attached in terms of a court order…
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Oct
03
2020
By The African Mirror
High profile arrests in unprecedented national crackdown on fraud and corruption in South Africa

High profile arrests in unprecedented national crackdown on fraud and corruption in South Africa

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER  SOUTH African law enforcement authorities have unleashed an unprecedented major crackdown on corruption in a series of busts in which politicians, business people, top civil servants and police officers were arrested for crimes involving hundreds of millions of rands. Arrests have been made in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State in joint action by the South African Police, the Hawks, the Special Investigating Unit and the National Prosecutions Authority. The law enforcement agencies say more arrests are imminent. In a dramatic three days, the first high profile was that of Vincent Smith, the former chairperson of Parliament’s Correctional…
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Oct
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Top ANC politician granted R30 000 bail and vows to prove his innocence

Top ANC politician granted R30 000 bail and vows to prove his innocence

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER VINCENT Smith, who has become the first high profile ANC politician to be arrested for corruption related to the state capture inquiry, has vowed to prove his innocence. Smith (60)  was arrested and appeared in Special Commercial Crimes Court in Palmridge, outside Johannesburg, where he was charged with corruption. He was granted bail of R30 000, ordered to hand in his passport and not to interfere with state witnesses. He is a former MP and ex-chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Correctional Services. The charges relate to amounts totalling R660 000 that he received from Bosasa In an…
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Sep
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Commission probing state capture adopts hardline stance against ex-president Zuma

Commission probing state capture adopts hardline stance against ex-president Zuma

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A special judicial commission set up to investigate allegations of fraud, corruption and the capture of the state by corrupt individuals, civil servants and politicians is taking steps to force former South African President Jacob Zuma to appear before it. Deputy Judge President Raymond Zondo, head of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, disclosed today, the day that Zuma was scheduled to appear, that he will hear an application from the commission's legal team to issue summonses against Zuma. This comes after Zuma wrote to the commission and said he would not be able to appear because of…
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Sep
17
2020
By The African Mirror
COVID-19 graft scandals fuel South Africans’ anger with ruling ANC

COVID-19 graft scandals fuel South Africans’ anger with ruling ANC

COVID-19
SIYABONGA SISHI and ALEXANDER WINNING A spate of corruption scandals during the COVID-19 pandemic has further fuelled some South Africans' frustration with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party and its failure to tackle graft despite renewed promises from President Cyril Ramaphosa. Reports of suspect deals between state officials and businesses providing medical equipment, as well as food aid parcels to the poor, have sparked outrage in a country which has recorded some 650,000 coronavirus cases, the highest number in Africa, and is also in the grip of a deepening recession. "In the coronavirus pandemic, we thought ... things will…
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Sep
17
2020
By The African Mirror
Ex-head of world athletics Diack jailed for two years for corruption

Ex-head of world athletics Diack jailed for two years for corruption

NEWS
THE former head of world athletics' governing body, Lamine Diack, has been convicted in France of corruption in a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail. Diack, 87, was found guilty of accepting bribes from athletes suspected of doping, to cover up test results and let them continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics. The court also found Diack guilty of accepting Russian money to help finance Macky Sall's campaign for the 2012 Senegal presidential election, in exchange for slowing anti-doping procedures. Prosecutors said Diack had solicited bribes totalling 3.45 million euros ($4.10…
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