Minister Simelane, Vitrovian and the Kusile cash grab

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Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane is in hot water, again. On Monday, News24's investigations team revealed that the minister bagged a cool R700 000 from an Eskom contractor for an invoice she signed off on in 2011. Vitrovian, an ANC-linked company, scored more than R300 million from Eskom over seven years using inflated invoices." The entire contract... the entire Vitrovian situation should have never happened in the first place. It shouldn't have existed," says News24’s senior investigative journalist Kyle Cowan. In our latest edition of The Lead, Cowan details how Simelane pocketed tax rands and whether the Special Investigating Unit is any closer to finalising its multifaceted probe into Eskom corruption. Later, we focus on how the government of national unity's testy internal negotiations to pass a budget dragged on. And finally, from her old Opel to her Bajaj Qute, Helen Zille prefers to keep her rides budget friendly.
31 Mar English South Africa News · Society & Culture

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