News24 Wire The accused allegedly unlawfully used 80% of the department s textbook budget to acquire supplementary resource material (SRM), without prior approval from National Treasury. Picture: iStock
The trial date in the multimillion-rand fraud and corruption case against former Eastern Cape education department superintendent-general Mthunywa Ngonzo is expected to be confirmed on 1 September.
Ngonzo – along with incumbent deputy director-general of the education department Ray Tywakadi, deputy director of IT support services Tryronne Fourie, former chief education specialist in the Learner Teacher Support Material Unit (LTSM) Noxolo Valencia Gwarube, and Siegesmund Trust representative Johannes Hermanus Bouwer Smith – are all implicated in alleged corruption involving R59 million.
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Education officials, businessman still to answer for alleged fraud, corruption 17 May 2021 - 13:01 By TimesLIVE Four current and former Eastern Cape education officials will have to answer to charges of corruption, fraud and theft. File photo. Image: Eugene Coetzee/The Herald
The four current and former senior Eastern Cape education officials and a businessman accused of fraud, corruption and theft will be back in court on July 8. They remain out on bail.
On Monday the five accused appeared briefly in the East London magistrate’s court on charges of corruption, fraud, attempted fraud, theft and contravention of the Public Finance Management Act.
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Former Eastern Cape head of the education department, Mthunywa Ngonzo, and the current deputy Director-General in the department, Ray Tywakadi, and three others appeared in court for a case of R59 million IT fraud on Monday.