A 55-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the R114 million Mpumalanga Department of Education tender fraud investigation. The arrest was executed on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, by the Hawks’ Middelburg and Nelspruit Serious Corruption Investigation teams. The investigation relates to alleged fraud, theft, corruption, money laundering and contravention…
Three people have been arrested in connection with an alleged fraud and corruption scheme at the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality, where a service provider was allegedly paid more than R1.5 million for goods and services that were never delivered. The suspects are 46-year-old service provider Brutus Hlophe, 48-year-old former municipal…
MIDDELBURG- The Hawks has welcomed a 10-year prison sentence handed to a 69-year-old man for tampering with essential infrastructure and fuel theft. The case stems from an incident on 2 July 2022, when Transnet detected a pressure drop on a fuel pipeline on a farm in Leslie. Transnet alerted a…
Three bank employees are facing charges of fraud, theft and Contravention of Prevention of Organised Crime Act. This is after the trio including a bank manager and two tellers made unauthorised transactions from clients’ bank accounts enriching themselves with R3 950 941. A year later, in 2017, the Hawks Nelspruit…
Former court clerk, Cornelius Mametse (43), pleaded guilty on six corruption charges and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment which is wholly suspended for five years on condition that he is not found guilty of similar charges. The matter was brought to the attention of the Hawks Middleburg based Serious…
A former police official and four other suspects arrested for Lieutenant-Colonel Piet Pretorius’s death remain behind bars. This is after four of the five suspects, Mthobisi Nkosi, Aubrey Xaba, Skhumbuzo Skhakhane and Nyiko Mujovo abandoned their bail application on Tuesday, February 18. They appeared in the Ermelo Magistrate’s Court with…