While dedicated SAPS members like Sergeant Catherine Tladi worked hard to ensure serial rapist Sello Mapunya is imprisoned for life, SAPS top leadership is riven with deadly divisions and deep-rooted corruption which threatens the wellbeing of the country.
While dedicated SAPS members like Sergeant Catherine Tladi worked hard to ensure serial rapist Sello Mapunya is imprisoned for life, SAPS top leadership is riven with deadly divisions and deep-rooted corruption which threatens the wellbeing of the country.
The report points to a serious lack of management, stating that ‘the principal safeguard against fraud, misstatement and irregularities is an effective system of internal control’.
Prominent ANC figures in Limpopo due in court over VBS Mutual Bank saga 11 March 2021 - 12:20 Two prominent Limpopo ANC figures were issued with arrest warrants on Thursday. They are due to appear in court on Friday on charges related to the VBS Mutual Bank case. File photo. Image: Antonio Muchave
Two prominent Limpopo ANC figures are due to appear at the Palm Ridge magistrate s court on Friday on charges related to the VBS Mutual Bank racketeering, fraud and corruption case.
This comes after they were issued with warrants of arrest on Thursday, which led to them deciding to hand themselves over to authorities on Thursday afternoon.
‘Not guilty’ says R35m VBS ‘looter’
Kabelo Matsepe, the former ANC Limpopo youth leader, who supposedly received a cool R35-million from VBS Mutual Bank’s alleged looting, will plead not guilty to corruption charges he faces. This was revealed on Thursday by Matsepe’s legal representative, Ulrich Kruger, who confirmed that his client was one of eight people nabbed by the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (or Hawks) in Gauteng and Limpopo.
The eight arrests are five more than what was revealed in court in January by prosecutor Hein van der Merwe, who had said the state would only be prosecuting three more accused.