Bravo, Scopa, for fighting graft where Hawks won’t

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Theft of state money is not, as some would believe, a victimless crime. It hurts all South Africans and must be stopped in its tracks.

There are negatives and positives about the R84 million that vanished from a district municipality in the North West – an event which the Hawks did not deem worthy of investigation. The negative is that the crime unit appears to have been sloppy in accepting explanations that the money – part of R134 million paid in error to the Bojanala municipality – had been paid back, when it had not.

The negative is that the crime unit appears to have been sloppy in accepting explanations that the money – part of R134 million paid in error to the Bojanala municipality – had been paid back, when it had not.

 

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