This week our case took place in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court. We have, Andile Cyprian Mkhize, who was a Senior Salary Officer at the Msunduzi Municipality. Andile had unrestricted access to all the documents, processes, computers, and computer programmes for the proper functioning of the finance department in the municipality. At all times, he had […]
This week’s case took place in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes. We have Lindelani Gumede, a bookkeeper, who was sentenced to 135 years for 32 counts of fraud on 18 August 2022. Lindelani submitted Covid-19 TERS claims on behalf of a number of his clients, however, Lindelani suitably forgot to inform his clients about the
This week our case is about Siyabonga Nkosi, he was a Eskom service provider. A businessman (tenderpreneur) who is alleged to have overcharged power utility, Eskom. Siyabonga’s companies delivered invoices and there are Eskom officials who signed off on contracts that priced relays at R50,000 each, when the market price was between R180 and R450.
This week our case is about Nikluis Manuel. He is a businessman who submitted fraudulent information, 662 ghost employee numbers and fabricated documentation in order to defraud funds intended to benefit workers during Covid-19. A R74.00 bank account balance remained in Manuel’s bank account after he used 662 ghost workers to claim R19.1 Million for
An article was released yesterday, 7 April 2026, that Standard Bank has reported a Data Breach. “The breach at the big-four bank comes shortly after its subsidiary, Liberty, disclosed a separate data breach affecting its own clients in late March 2026, underscoring a sustained wave of cyber attacks targeting South African financial institutions and government
