North West government must account for missing mining royalties

17 April 2019 - 17:06American novelist and social critic James Baldwin once said: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” But what happens when that which must be faced is hidden beneath layers of bureaucratic agendas, politically motivated decisions and personal interests? Looting and corruption of the grandest scale, that’s what.

Historically, the management and administration of these royalties has always had a great measure of government involvement, dating back to the infamous development accounts that have been overseen by the provincial government in the North West and the then Lebowa government, tasked with custodianship of the Lebowa Minerals Trust.

Various investigations have regularly reported on the “missing millions”. In 2010, the Hendler commission estimated that R300m had been looted from the Bakwena ba Mogopa accounts. In her 2017 report, the public protector estimated that R600m was siphoned out of the Bapo ba Mogale community accounts and, in the same year, the Maluleke commission estimated that about R800m went missing from the Bakgatla ba Kgafela accounts.

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