A senior Eastern Cape government official accused of bribing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) investigators to drop an investigation into a questionable R69-million police tender will stand trial in January next year.
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A trial date has been set for a bribery matter involving Eastern Cape chief director of community safety and liaison Neil Naidoo, the Investigating Directorate said on Thursday.
Two recipients of the South African Social Security Agency's old persons' grant appeared in the Pretoria North Magistrate's Court for allegedly defrauding the agency.
Two pensioners collecting South African Social Security Agency grants have been arrested in separate cases for alleged perjury, theft, fraud and defrauding the agency as companies registered in their names made millions from the police service.