AfriForum dien klag in ná Mpumalanga-departement R1,92 miljard vermors
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AfriForum launched its Anti-corruption Unit in cooperation with Paul O’Sullivan, Forensic Investigator and certified Fraud Examiner, at a media conference in Centurion today. The civil rights organisation has long recognised the fact that systemic corruption could bring any country to its knees and therefore decided to take this opportunity to expose how the criminal justice…
AfriForum condemns the decision by the presidency to press on with today’s exorbitant inauguration ceremony. In spite of the presidency’s reassurance that taxpayers have to cough up R100 million less than for the previous presidential inauguration, R120 million still is an enormous amount to spend on a one-off and unnecessary ceremony such as this. Nkosazana…
AfriForum today submitted criminal charges against both Andrina Matsemela, Mayor of the Mogalakwena Local Municipality, and Charles Malema, Chief Financial Officer of the Municipality, at the Mokopane Police Station in Potgietersrus. This follows after Matsemela allegedly spent approximately R1,5 million of municipal funds on her birthday party. The civil rights organisation is demanding that the police…
Income tax amounted to 36,45% of the total budget for the 2015/2016 fiscal year. AfriForum investigated the consolidated general report on national and provincial audit outcomes for the 2014/2015 financial year as well as the promises made by Government during the 2015 budget speech in order to determine if taxpayers received value for their money….
The former President of the USA, FD Roosevelt, remarked that tax is like membership fees which citizens pay for the privileges that we receive as a result of our membership to an organised society. In South Africa, however, members get the short end of the stick, seeing as membership fees continue to rise while our…
AfriForum today laid criminal charges of money laundering and corruption against Fikile Mbalula, former Minister of Sport, at the Brooklyn police station. This follows after Sedgars Sport, a supplier of sport products, allegedly payed between R300 000 and R680 000 in 2017 for the Mbalula family’s trip to Dubai. AfriForum requested the Public Protector (PP) in 2017…