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The suspended deputy chief of the Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department has denied rigging tender evaluation processes and colluding with Sergeant Fannie Nkosi and the city’s chief financial officer (CFO) Gareth Mnisi in a R2.9 billion security contract. The crux of Umashi Dhlamini’s testimony at the Madlanga commission on Tuesday centred on his defence against allegations…
The contrast between South Africa’s high levels of poverty and unemployment, alongside persistent allegations of corruption and graft, raises renewed questions about whether this is the freedom that was fought for. A Competition Commission report on the cost of living found that utilities, food and education, continues to rise faster than general inflation, placing significant…
Tshwane chief financial officer Gareth Mnisi has denied acting as a “tender-fixer” in a R2.9 billion Tshwane municipal security contract, saying Sergeant Fannie Nkosi’s requests related to compliance checks rather than efforts to influence the outcome. Under cross-examination at the Madlanga commission on Monday, Mnisi was questioned about seven companies Nkosi had prioritised for bid…
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has refused Sergeant Fannie Nkosi’s application that he be held in the hospital wing of Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility instead of the general prison population. Nkosi faces multiple charges, among them contravention of the Explosives Act, illegal possession of explosives, contravention of the Firearms Control Act, failure to…
Police officer Fannie Nkosi, known as Witness F, told the Madlanga commission that suspended deputy national police commissioner for crime detection Shadrack Sibiya had requested Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala to arrest social media blogger Musa Khawula. “We received a call from General Sibiya telling me that I must forward this warrant to Mr Matlala because at…