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Regional Courts
Durban
Police
to question R Kelly over scam - 23 June
US R&B singer Robert Kelly, popularly known as R Kelly, will be
questioned by police following allegations he was involved in an
investment scam, police said today. Durban woman, Busisiwe Priscilla
Zakwe, implicated R Kelly in an alleged investment scam that
apparently swindled money out of more than 50 people, many of them
pensioners. State prosecutor Blackie Swart wrote a letter to
Kelly’s agent Jason Miller earlier this year requesting the singer
to explain his involvement in the scam but he did not receive any
response. - The
Times website
Parow
I
was asked to change Yengeni docket, cop tells court - 17
June
A constable involved in the arrest last year of former African
National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni was asked to change
statements in the police docket, the Parow Regional Court heard on
Wednesday. The purpose of the alleged request by former Goodwood
police station commander Siphiwo Hewana was to protect Yengeni,
Constable Charles Japhta testified. Hewana is on trial before
magistrate Elsa van Zyl on three charges - an attempt to defeat the
ends of justice, incitement to commit perjury and interfering with
the Yengeni investigation. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
- Mail &
Guardian website
Yengeni
docket order 'came from top' - 18 June
Orders to falsify a Toni Yengeni drunken driving docket came from
Western Cape provincial police commissioner Mzwandile Petros, the
Parow Regional Court heard today. - The
Times website
Confusion
on night of Yengeni arrest - 19 June
The alleged falsification of Tony Yengeni's drunken driving docket
caused confusion, the Parow Regional Court heard today. The result
was a confrontation in which a police captain at the Goodwood police
station was accused of "not knowing what was going on".
This was the testimony of Captain Yolande Adonis, shift commander at
the Goodwood police station, in the trial of former station
commander Siphiwo Hewana. He faces charges of attempting to defeat
the ends of justice, incitement to commit perjury and interfering
with former ANC chief whip Yengeni’s drunk driving investigation.
- The
Times website
E-mail
could sink Hewana's case - 20 June
An e-mail placed before court appears to show that Siphiwo Hewana
appealed to two officers to cover up the time ex-ANC chief whip Tony
Yengeni was arrested for drunk driving. In the e-mail addressed to
the department of the provincial police commissioner, then-Goodwood
police station commissioner Hewana allegedly asked the officers to
alter the time of arrest to protect the image of the station and
provincial office. - IOL
website
Yengeni
case : 'blood sample diluted' - 26 June
Three senior police officers who heard confessions implicating the
station commissioner in interfering with the drunken driving case of
former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni, have echoed testimony previously
given in the Parow Regional Court by the junior officers who were
involved. The court also heard the original case docket disappeared
from a safe and a blood sample was tampered with. - IOL
website
Pietermaritzburg
Child
drowns at creche : suspended sentence for owner - 10 June
A Pietermaritzburg creche owner has been given a five-year sentence,
suspended, for the accidental drowning of a 2-year-old boy in an
unfenced pool.
Lalita Harry pleaded guilty in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court
to culpable homicide and entered into a plea agreement with the
State.
Harry admitted to negligence, in that the pool should have been
fenced and that the non-separation of the pool from the creche was a
direct and substantial cause of the death of Luthando Mkhize. - Sowetan
website
Man
on R200m fraud charges stripped of assets - 11 June
KwaZulu-Natal businessman Jabulani Mabaso, who stands accused of
defrauding the provincial Education Department of about
R200-million, has been stripped of the expensive properties and
luxury cars which, the State alleges, were his ill-gotten gains. The
assets - the value of which is still being determined - will remain
under the control of a court-appointed curator until the outcome of
a criminal trial in which he will have to answer to theft and fraud
charges relating to a tender for the supply of books and stationery
to schools. This week, curator Trevor White of
PricewaterhouseCoopers began taking control of the properties which
were "restrained" by the order handed down by Judge King
Ndlovu in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The order also authorised
the attachment of about R4-million in several bank accounts and five
vehicles. The order also covers assets of other entities in which
Mabaso holds shares. Mabaso has until July 7 to oppose the asset
forfeiture application. He will appear in the Pietermaritzburg
Regional Court again on the criminal charges on July 15. - IOL
website
Keyphrases :
Afribooks
Indiza Capital
Indiza Infrastructure Solutions
KZN Asset Forfeiture Unit
Scorpions
Twilight Logistics
Scorpions
saga delays school fraud case - 19 March
The disbanding of the Scorpions has impacted on a R270-million
school stationery fraud case against a KwaZulu-Natal businessman -
holding up the arrests of senior Department of Education
officials. Indiza Infrastructure Solutions boss Jabulani Mabaso of
Durban appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on
Wednesday on charges of fraud, money laundering and corruption
related to a tender awarded to Indiza by the KwaZulu-Natal
Education Department for the supply of stationery to schools.
Mabaso is out on R1-million bail. - IOL
website
Man
in court for R43m in unpaid VAT - 31 May 2007
A man accused of failing to pay R43-million in value added tax
(VAT) to the South African Revenue Service (Sars) appeared in the
Durban regional court on Thursday afternoon on charges of theft
and fraud. Jabulani Mabaso was released with a warning and ordered
to hand over his passport to the investigating officers. Mabaso
was unable to pay any bail because his assets had been frozen.
Judge Ibrahim Khalil will hear the case on June 27. - IOL
website
South
Africa must mine its human resources - 4 February 1992
If a democratic South Africa is to work, it needs to view the
empowerment of blacks not as charity or even the righting of past
wrongs, but as taking advantage of the enormous resources,
resourcefulness and talent to be found among black youths who are
being lost to society. This was brought most forcefully to my
attention by 22-year-old Jabulani Mabaso, whose self-help Masmove
learning movement in strife-torn Natal province targeted students
who had failed the "matric." Study groups of 6 to 15
students were formed, who enlisted tutors, set their own work
schedules and helped one another. The result is a phenomenal 87
percent pass rate. Masmove is expanding and will soon be tried in
schools throughout South Africa. That Mr Mabaso is tackling his
country's severe educational problems suggests there is no
alternative to empowering black South Africans in the search for
solutions. - New
York Times website
See also : http://indizacapital.co.za/
Peggy
Nkonyeni's trial set for August - 12 June
The KwaZulu-Natal legislature's speaker Peggy Nkonyeni and two
co-accused go on trial in August for alleged corruption. The trial
was set down from August 13 to 18 on Friday by Pietermaritzburg
regional magistrate Chris van Vuuren. According to the indictment, Nkonyeni allegedly accepted kickbacks
of R20 000 and free accommodation at the luxury Steenberg Boutique
in Constantia. - The
Times website
1 June 2009
KwaZulu-Natal
Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize has noted the court appearance of the
Speaker of the Provincial Legislature, Mrs Peggy Nkonyeni
SA
Government Information website
KZN
speaker must step down : DA - 2 June
The DA in KwaZulu-Natal today called on premier Zweli Mkhize and the
ANC to ask the provincial legislature speaker to step down pending
the outcome of her corruption trial."As the political head of
the KZN legislature, the appearance of [Peggy] Nkonyeni in the dock
has sullied the entire legislature and runs the real risk of
bringing the legislature into disrepute", DA caucus leader in
the legislature John Steenhuisen said in a statement. - The
Times website
'Mabizela's
rights were violated' - 23 June
Troubled footballer Mbulelo Mabizela no longer has a charge of drunk
driving hanging over his head following his acquittal in the
Pietermaritzburg District Court on Monday. Magistrate Dieter Schultz
found that Mabizela's Constitutional rights had not been properly
explained to him upon his arrest, which resulted in him having an
unfair trial. His attorney Nasen Naicker had argued that when the
former Bafana Bafana captain was arrested, on December 12, last year
on Alan Paton (Durban) Road, the arresting officer had not explained
his rights to him. - IOL
website
Pretoria
R45m
fraud puts brothers in prison - 25 June
Two brothers were each sent to jail for more than a decade on
Wednesday after being convicted of 248 charges of fraud, involving
more than R30-million, by the Pretoria Regional Court. Cornelius
Abraham Lottering of Johannesburg and Beatrix Johannes Lottering of
Midrand, both in their 50s, pleaded not guilty after their arrest in
2000. They were, however, convicted of fraud and contravening the Banking
Act and the Companies Act. The
two ran a pyramid scheme. - IOL
website
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