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TimesLive reports that the Director-General in the KwaZulu-Natal premier’s office, Nonhlanhla Mkhize, has been arrested on allegations of defeating the ends of justice and intimidation for allegedly threatening Mhlathuze Water and demanding that it stop an investigation into financial irregularities.
Hawks spokesperson Brig Thandi Mbambo said Mkhize was arrested at her home on Monday after an investigation by the national clean audit task team. An accomplice was also arrested. After the chairperson of Mhlathuze Water board reported allegations of the irregular appointment of service providers the supply chain management protocols of the board having been followed, an investigation was launched and a forensic report was compiled. The report implicated some senior officials in irregularities that resulted in Mhlathuze Water being prejudiced by an amount of about R37m. Mbambo reported that the chairperson of the Mhlathuze Water board allegedly received a visit from an unknown person at her home claiming to be from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and to have been sent by the senior manager in the premier’s office. “The individual [allegedly] threatened the chairperson with arrest and demanded the forensic report. He further insisted that the complainant must stop the investigation.” It later emerged that the person was not from the NIA and that he was in cahoots with people of interest implicated in the investigation. Mbambo said more arrests were imminent.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nivashni Nair at BusinessLive
- Read too, Net to spread wider after arrest of director-general in KZN premier’s office, at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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