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 and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE The Independent Electoral ­Commission’s R320 million office lease, in which Manaka Property Investment has a backdoor stake, faces renewed scrutiny. M24 Investigations has confirmed that one of the Manaka directors was a business partner of IEC chair Pansy Tlakula. Tlakula played a role in the IEC’s new lease… 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 »