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.
East London couple in their 60s accused of drug dealing
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Cape Town - A married couple in their 60s appeared in the East London Magistrateâs Court on Monday on several charges of drug dealing.
According to the provincial spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, Basil van Heerden, 61, and his wife, 62-year-old Brenda van Heerden, were arrested on Friday.
She said the Hawksâ Serious Organised Crime Investigation team based in East London, along with the Mdantsane Crime Intelligence, executed an operation after receiving information about the couple allegedly selling cannabis to members of the community from the home in the Chiselhurst Cambridge area in East London.
Eastern Cape businessman in dock in R2.4m VAT fraud case
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20 May 2021, 16:11 GMT+10
An Eastern Cape businessman has appeared in court for allegedly pocketing R2.4 million in VAT payments.
Buyisile Zama Nomesi, 48, the director of Malk IAfrica Trading Ventures CC, made a brief appearance in the East London Magistrate s Court on Wednesday.
Nomesi is accused of submitting fraudulent VAT returns to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) between September 2012 and November 2015. He claimed that he was never in business during that period, whereas he was involved in numerous businesses with different municipal offices and departments in the Eastern Cape, Hawks spokesperson Captain Yolisa Mgolodela said.