JEANNE VAN DER MERWE A LUCRATIVE government property lease awarded to a company owned by Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale and Parliament’s finance portfolio committee chairman Thaba Mufamadi will form part of a wide-ranging probe by the Special Investigating Unit into the Department of Water Affairs’ finances. A proclamation gazetted last week specifically orders that the… Read More »

Thanduxolo Jika The national government’s intervention team in Limpopo has scrapped a R320 million textbook tender which was controversially awarded to a company controlled by former government mandarins. Anis Karodia, the National Basic Education Department’s intervention team head, terminated the contract with EduSolutions which also has significant contracts in Gauteng and other provinces. The wrangle… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and THANDUXOLO JIKA A property company co-owned by Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale and Parliament’s finance portfolio head, Thaba Mufamadi, has scored at least R520 million in government lease contracts. Three of these contracts were awarded without being put out to public tender. Although Mathale resigned as a director of Manaka Property Investments… Read More »