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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

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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