HEROES & ZEROES

Honest cop nets big fish

Our hero this week is an honest cop who will have nothing to do with corruption. Colonel Hansia Asaram – now Hansraj – heads the Goodwood police station, and it was her diligence in pursuing what she suspected was corruption in the ranks, which led to charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering being laid Read more >

NEWS

Taxpayers paying alleged fraudsters’ legal bills

Our zero this week is the Matjhabeng local municipality in the Free State – not content with spectacularly mismanaging its own budget, the municipality is footing the legal bill for two former MECs who are in court for alleged abuse of public funds. Matjhabeng, according to News24, has never received a clean audit since its Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Corrupt police are our zeroes

Our zeroes this week are all the police officers who have been implicated in or found to be guilty of corruption in the course of their work. This lamentable situation was highlighted last week when none other than the Western Cape Police Commissioner Arno Lamoer, with four other accused, was charged with 109 counts of Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Over R3-million for sitting at home

Advocate Nkahloleng Phasha, chief director of legal services in the national Department of Labour, was suspended in October 2011, for reasons not publicly known. He returned to work in March 2015. In the 40 months in between, Phasha earned his full monthly salary of around R82 000, while sitting at home – a cost of over Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Gauteng transport cleans up

The Gauteng Transport Department’s anti-fraud and corruption campaign was launched on Wednesday 25 March. Just two days later, a pair of officials working at the Maponya mall license testing centre were arrested on corruption charges. If the initiative keeps going at this momentum and crooked officials are brought to book, the licensing landscape in the Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Don’t pay a traffic bribe!

Two Mthatha, Eastern Cape, traffic officers were arrested last week for allegedly trying to solicit a bribe from a truck driver. For having the courage to report the officers for their conduct, the truck driver is our hero of the week. The officers, both in their 30s, were arrested on Tuesday by members of the Read more >

LITIGATION

NPA reinstates Mdluli charges

Will he face the music? Won’t he? The Richard Mdluli tennis match continues going back and forth, with the news that the fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges against him are to be reinstated by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). For finally making some forward motion on the case, which has dragged on for far too Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Fake degrees not the key to success

Saxen van Coller is the Dube TradePort CEO who was recently suspended by the KwaZulu-Natal government's business initiative, after questions arose about her academic qualifications. If she is found to have indeed faked her qualifications in order to occupy such an important position, her name will join those of over 600 other public servants who have Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Minister covers up advisor’s spending spree

Rampant government spending has been in the news over the last few years. There was Humphrey Mmemezi, the former Gauteng MEC for local government and housing as well as Speaker Lindiwe Maseko, both big spenders who were alleged to have misused public money. There was Tina Joemat-Pettersson, the former minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, who Read more >