The Corruption Report
An explosive report by the Pillay Commission into corruption in the Eastern Cape has named three top ANC leaders - including a current national minister - as the figures behind the systematic "siphoning" of nearly R200m in public money in dodgy deals which benefited them and their families.
Three top ANC leaders – including a current national minister – have been named in an explosive report into corruption in the Eastern Cape as the figures behind the systematic “siphoning” of nearly R200m in public money in dodgy deals which benefited them and their families. The Pillay Commission report, leaked to the Dispatch on Wednesday and which the current Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela has resisted releasing publicly for a year, also reveals how nearly a quarter of a billion rand simply disappeared from the province’s public coffers over a decade.
The report indicts the administration of Makhenkosi Stofile, the former Eastern Cape premier and current national sports minister, who presided over, what Judge Ronnie Pillay, described as a “clearly orchestrated siphoning off of public money from the fiscus”.
The report refers to investigative report – called Project Spin - by state investigators which the enquiry only laid its hands on in its final days.
It was this report that lifted the lid on the alleged activities of Stofile and two other key figures: current ANC provincial chairman Stone Sizani, also a former education MEC, and Enoch Godogwana, a former Economic Affairs.
Mike Stofile, Makhenkosi Stofile’s brother and former South African Rugby Union deputy president, is also named as a beneficiary of irregular deals.
The President knew
Stofile: Report was inspired by jealousy
Premier’s Fund disbursed R5m – all unaudited
Flawed tender went out despite warning
The ringmaster with an iron fist
ANC vets also want Balindlela out
The R200m Scam
How wives cashed in on taxpayers’ money
The four who were named and shamed
The Judge: Ronnie Pillay
Dispatch publisher in the spotlight
AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE
Today we decide to publish the damning findings of the Pillay Commission without waiting for them to be formally released by Premier Nosimo Balindlela. [read more]
BYE BYE BALINDLELA
Nosimo Balindlela is to be sacked as the premier of the Eastern Cape within days. [read more]
The Money Tree
Timeline of events
THE INVESTIGATION
Judge Pillay to head probe into fraud, corruption
Words or deeds
Pillay grills officials over non-compliance
Pillay shows teeth
“Total chaos” at Bhisho Treasury
Pillay told of book lice in files
Social dept known as “Hollywood”
Deadline for Pillay Commission extended
Pillay probes Coega cash
Tensions surface at Pillay hearing
Transparency the loser
Fraud probe ends behind closed doors
Balindlela criticised over Pillay report
ANC urges public release of Pillay report
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