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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A former soldier has been arrested after several allegedly illegal firearms and ammunition were found at his Eastern Cape farm on Friday.
In a joint operation with East London s Public Order Policing officers, as well as the Mantsane Firearms Liquor and Second Hand goods team and members of the East London Local Criminal Record Centre, the Hawks Crimes Against The State team in East London arrested the 58-year-old ex-soldier on his Berlin farm.
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Officers made the arrest after they received a tip-off, according to Hawks spokesperson Captain Yolisa Mgolodela.
The soldier, a former South African Defence Force (SADF) employee, is said to be the owner of a private school in Berlin.
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