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News24.com | Corruption accused Beauty Phahlane still at her police post
Despite standing trial on corruption charges and a recommendation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) that she be suspended, Brigadier Beauty Phahlane is still in her post at the South African Police Service (SAPS).
She is the wife of corruption co-accused and former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane, who has since been suspended.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) met with the police, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and IPID on Wednesday to discuss SITA’s contract with police supplier Forensic Data Analysts (FDA).
READ: Phahlane, wife, car dealer appear in court for corruption
On April 5, FDA shut down three police systems. The company, run by former police officer Keith Keating, claimed SITA had not paid it for five months for its services.
The systems have since been turned back on, and the dispute is headed to court, with police commissioner Lieutenant General Khehla Sitole telling Scopa on Wednesday that he feels optimistic about the police’s case.
SITA did not pay the FDA following a Scopa meeting which was held on November 29 where several problems with some of FDA’s contracts for the police were found. The committee then asked SITA to cancel its contracts with FDA and stop paying the company.
SITA turned two of the police’s systems back on on April 9.
In Wednesday’s meeting, it emerged that Brigadier Phahlane had written a letter to Sitole asking for details about the switching on of the systems.
She works in the police’s unit for information technology services, and her husband headed the unit for forensic services before he was appointed acting national commissioner. Both these units make use of FDA’s products.
READ: Boeremag link to state IT company and dodgy police supplier
The case for which the Phahlanes stand trial is based on the allegation that Keating paid for their personal vehicles.
IFP MP Mkhuleko Hlengwa asked if Brigadier Phahlane was at work.
IPID executive director Robert McBride confirmed that she was indeed, despite IPID’s recommendation that she be suspended.
“Why is Brigadier Phahlane still at work?” Hlengwa asked. “With all due respect to her, she is tainted.
“We are operating an Animal Farm-type of SAPS,” he said.
Links to other high-ranking officers
In response Sitole said that by the time he was appointed as national commissioner, the police had already taken the route of conducting an investigation into her before a decision on a suspension was made.
“It is one of the matters given high priority,” he said.
The brigadier is not the only high-ranking police officer tied to FDA.
DA MP Tim Brauteseth asked Sitole if he knew about Project Khulisa, which relates to the building of a house for technology management service head Lieutenant General Adeline Shezi, and that multiple payments for this house were made by a contractor for the police named Unisys.
The contractor involved is Intsika Distributors, which is linked to Unisys, a company owned by Jerenique Bayard.
Unisys has done contract work for FDA. It is also Unisys that paid for a trip for Bayard and Keating to visit football club Manchester United’s stadium Old Trafford in October 2011 accompanied by two police officers from the police’s supply chain department.
Sitole ‘extremely concerned’
Brauteseth opened a can of worms when he whipped out enlarged pictures of Bayard, Keating and the police officers, whose surnames are Arendt and Masuku, in their personalised Manchester United jerseys at Old Trafford in the dramatic meeting in November last year.
On Wednesday, he again showed one of these enlarged photos to the committee.
Sitole said he was aware of IPID’s investigation.
Brauteseth asked Sitole if he was concerned about the links between FDA, Unisys, SITA and the police.
Sitole said he was “extremely concerned”. He said Brauteseth was speaking about the content of an investigation and the police “can’t relate as much” until the investigation is completed.
Brauteseth also asked him if he would agree that these revelations confirmed the committee’s concerns about FDA and SITA.
Empty threat
Sitole answered in the affirmative, saying they took a “dot-to-dot-connection approach”.
“The committee was correct,” he said.
Brauteseth said Keating had sent a letter to his party leader Mmusi Maimane to complain about his conduct.
“I think I’ll frame it, it means I’m doing my job,” he said.
He said the switching off of the systems seemed like a false threat and asked if it meant that “this wolf did not have many teeth”.
Sitole, laughing, answered: “I did not count the teeth.”
“No one can threaten SAPS while I’m commissioner.”
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News24.com | Water dept is in ‘shambles’, admits Nkwinti after taking over from Mokonyane
Water and Sanitation Minister Gugile Nkwinti conceded to MPs that the department he had inherited earlier this year from Nomvula Mokonyane is “a mess”.
At a briefing on the department’s budget and strategic plan, presented to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation on Wednesday, MPs grilled officials and the minister on how they were going to put things right in a “collapsed department”.
Nkwinti assured MPs that he had a plan to deal with the problems.
“Let’s not be too locked in the past. We have a very difficult situation, let’s correct it. I have got only 12 months here. I am going to deal with it. We have to try to do the best we can to sweep the floor of the debris,” Nkwinti said.
READ: How Mokonyane paved the way for a consulting firm to earn billions
Nkwinti took over the ailing department this year from Mokonyane, who City Press reports has been accused of irregular actions while she was minister.
One of the many problems the bankrupt department faced was a massive R1.2bn debt because municipalities, water boards, companies and parastatals had not paid for the water they used.
Departmental officials told MPs that they had met National Treasury last week to ask for help in bailing them out of the massive debt.
‘Budget had been mismanaged’
Paul Nel, acting chief financial officer of the department’s water trading section, told MPs: “We need help from Treasury. This amount is not in our budget. It is physically impossible to pay for this without assistance. I think they understand that.”
Of the R11.2bn owed to the department, R2.5bn was owed by entities likes Sasol, Eskom and mining companies; R4.2bn was owed directly by municipalities; and R3.6bn was owed by water boards.
There were 160 municipalities that had not paid a cent of their water bills.
Another problem was the lack of staff. The department had 6 819 posts, but 1 016 were vacant. The previous minister had placed a moratorium on filling posts – which Nkwinti has since lifted.
Nkwinti said South Africa was a water-scarce country, but 35% of all the water the department supplied to municipalities was lost to leaks.
READ: Students to save SA R7bn in water leaks – Mokonyane
Although the department had started a programme to fix this, it believed the Department of Cooperative Governance ought to help with the programme, as the bulk of the leaks were the result of poor municipal infrastructure, not departmental infrastructure.
MPs told the minister that they were particularly concerned that the same officials who had mismanaged last year’s budget, would be managing the 2018/19 budget.
IFP MP Patrick Chauke said: “We cannot allow a situation again, where the department reaches 28% of its targets and the entire budget is finished. The committee has to resort to launching an inquiry, because of the manner in which the budget had been mismanaged.”
‘We are dealing with a department that has collapsed’
Chauke said a number of deputy directors general in the department had been suspended earlier for “serious mismanagement”, but had returned to work, without any charges being laid against them.
“One overspent by more than R400m; that person is back in office… We feel very strongly that some people are not to be trusted to work with public money. My plea is, appoint the right people to the right positions. We are dealing with a department that has collapsed. The capacity in that department is zero,” Chauke said.
Nkwinti said South African labour law did not allow officials simply to be fired, but that a process had to be followed.
Committee chairperson Lulu Johnson said MPs wanted to support the department in sorting out the problems. However, they were worried about maladministration and corruption. He said it appeared that consultants working on departmental projects applied only for the big jobs of R500m or more.
“Who knows if the department is pushing that so they can get kickbacks?” Johnson said.
The Water and Sanitation Committee and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) have finalised the terms of reference for the joint inquiry into the maladministration of the department, but still needed to set a date for the inquiry to begin.
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Sport24.co.za | Loftus was Stormers’ wake-up call
Gavin Rich – SuperSport.com
The say elephants have long memories but even the world’s largest mammals may not best the memory of a front-row forward who has been shunted backwards and made to feel uncomfortable in his primary role of scrummaging.
At the same time, while confidence is a good thing when it comes to most aspects of life, when it has gone well for a scrumming unit against a certain opponent, sometimes a bit of amnesia can be a good thing. For the memory of the loser, and what he puts into redressing what went wrong previously, can quite literally turn him into a different animal next time around.
There in a nutshell you have one of the biggest challenges facing the Bulls when they travel to Newlands this weekend for the return Super Rugby derby against the Stormers. In many ways, and not necessarily just the scrumming, the first round match between the two teams was a wake-up call for the Cape side, who believe they have applied remedies to the aspects of the game where they were caught out last time.
While the Stormers were caught by surprise by the Bulls in several areas on Easter Saturday, this time they know what to expect. And so they should, for even though the Bulls have lost a key member of their front-row to suspension, the scrumming of the Pretoria team, which was a weakness in previous seasons, has gone from strength to strength in recent weeks. The Stormers won’t have forgotten in a hurry what the Bulls did to them in the lineouts and with their driving mauls either.
But the Stormers have a highly rated scrum and it will be in that area that they will be itching to make the biggest statement on Saturday. Stormers forwards coach Russell Winter worked quite hard at a press conference this week at trying to not make too much of a big deal about it, but he didn’t try to hide the fact that the first scrum of the Loftus clash, where the Stormers suffered the indignity of having their highly rated scrum destroyed, is burnt into the memory of his players.
“That first scrum at Loftus was something that we remember and definitely haven’t forgotten,” said Winter.
“The Bulls’ desire showed with that first scrum and you are quite right to say that it set the tone for that game. Moments like that are what you hate when you are a player and you don’t forget them. But we are not going to change anything and we reckon we have a pretty good scrum ourselves. Even in that game at Loftus our scrumming got progressively better after that first setback.
“While we remember that scrum and have been working hard on ensuring there isn’t a repeat, for me personally there isn’t usually too much focus on the opposition and what has happened previously. Yes, we will try and use it for motivation but ultimately it is about us just getting our own game right.
“We know what is coming. A derby match against the Bulls is always tough. But what do is just focus on ourselves and what we do well. That doesn’t mean we are not motivated by what happened in the past and we know we should be in a better position on the log and are hurting about that. But we need to be motivated for every game because there is no easy game in this competition.”
When Winter says that the Stormers won’t be changing anything that is a reference to the make up of the scrum as much as it is to any technicalities of scrumming. Springbok Frans Malherbe has now played two Supersport Challenge games for Western Province but Winter doesn’t show any temptation to bring him back for the clash with his team’s fiercest rivals.
“We don’t want to rush Frans in at the deep end. If we give him time to come back at a comfortable pace then we give him a much better chance of being the Frans of old again,” said the Stormers forward coach.
“A tighthead who has had a neck injury has be managed. We know that at his best Frans is capable of being in any side. But we will manage him.”
That does not mean that the Stormers aren’t aware of the big workload carried by their other Springbok tightead, Wilco Louw, so far this season and according to Winter that too is being managed. He also believes that the absence of Malherbe has led to a growth in the Stormers’ tighthead depth.
“We realised at the start of the year that we needed to manage Wilco’s workload. The workload that tighthead props experience in contact areas is very high and we are making sure we don’t overload Wilco. Fortunately, we have a 20 year old (in Carlu Sadie) who came on and the team credited him with creating our last try against the Rebels.”
If the Bulls scrum subjected the Stormers to their biggest wake-up call at Loftus at the end of March, the lineout battle in that game plus the ease with which the Bulls mauled the Stormers wasn’ far behind in the list of concerns.
Both Winter and hooker Ramone Samuels are confident they have remedied both problem areas.
“We have operated at 95 percent efficiency in the lineouts since the Bulls game,” said Samuels.
“We lost one ball against the Rebels this past weekend because of poor communication but that sort of stuff happens. We are happy with how we have progressed.”
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eNCA | Karabo Mokoena’s mother ‘happy’ with guilty verdict
JOHANNESBURG – The family of the late Karabo Mokoena has welcomed the court’s verdict handed down to her killer Sandile Mantsoe.
On Wednesday the South Gauteng High Cour found Mantsoe guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend Mokoena..
“I was at the beginning a little bit sceptical, I am relieved even though I am a bit shaky, even though you can’t see it but I am relieved and happy about the outcome,” said Lolo, Mokoena’s mother.
“I am also very happy, really indeed, God has done it… I’m here with mama as a spiritual mother for Karabo, I’m very pleased, thank you Lord,” she said.
#KaraboMokoena‘s Family after the development at the South Gauteng High Court. #SandileMantsoe pic.twitter.com/mMYr8gYKlc
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Mokoena’s charred remains were found in Lyndhurst.
Throughout the trial, Mantsoe has denied killing Mokoena.
Mantsoe will be sentenced on Thursday.
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eNCA | ‘EFF the only party fighting for black people’: Malema
COLIGNY, North West – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is the only party fighting for black people in South Africa, party leader Julius Malema said on Wednesday.
“We are fighting for black people. Why is only the black community which is left in poverty, are we a cursed nation, are we a defeated nation, a we a hopeless nation. Why are we rejected, why are we killed when we speak the truth,” he said to a chorus of applause.
He was speaking in Tlhabologang near Coligny, at the by-election victory celebration.
The EFF won ward 15 in the Ditsobotla municipality during the April 25 by-election.
READ: 65 suspected looters in court following North West riots
Malema said the liberation of people in the North West started in Coligny with the red beret winning a ward.
“Who is going to liberate the black nation. We are our own liberators, we have the power… we punished them during the by-election,” he said.
He called on party members not to participate in the wave of violent ripping through North West in a push to remove Premier Supra Mahumapelo from office.
“Do not block roads, do not loot shops. We do not want bloodshed. If the ANC want to remove Supra they should have supported EFF motion of no confidence in him. We gave them an option where blood will not be shed.”
He said the EFF would write to the North West Provincial Legislature requesting a motion of no confidence in Mahumapelo.
READ: Pressure mounts for North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo’s exit
“We are writing a letter. We want a motion of no confidence through secret ballot or open ballot we want to see those crooks ANC who support Supra.”
He said Mahumapelo stole money from various government departments.
“We do not have sympathy for him…”
Malema was well received at his first visit in Coligny, a sea clad in red waved hands in the air when Malema walked to the stage, he joined them waving hands and doing the toyi-toyi.
A high number of public order police and tactical response team officers were deployed at the sports ground where the victory celebration were held.
Malema was accompanied by the North West provincial leaders and general secretary Goldrich Gardee.
African News Agency