SA’S WATERGATE: Missing millions – Whistle-blower reveals how Department of Water and Sanitation covered up its own probe

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Dealings with the Department of Water and Sanitation suggest the leadership of an entire government department at the highest level ignored and mislaid R36-million worth of critical in-depth investigations.

expressed grave concern about the number of investigations and corruption charges that had been levelled, mostly against internal officials and external suppliers. He likened the department to having become a police station, with the large number of corruption cases levelled against officials, and the investigations still under way in the department.

Through his personal assistant, Mchunu refused to reply on paper, insisting on an online interview, which revolved more around semantics and terminology and why the leaked disciplinary committee investigation – the Watergate files – was of no apparent interest to his department. “It ended with her [former minister Lindiwe Sisulu] term of office.

The R36-million spent on the Department of Water and Sanitation investigation – which exposes evidence of corruption and rot that had set in at the department over at least 10 years – appears to have been whistled away by the department’s hierarchy as an inconvenient truth.This little DDG retired In that period, explained Tshangana in the letter, the department incurred unauthorised and irregular expenditure “amounting to at least R2.8-billion”.When pressed on repeated occasions for clarity on what became of Mochotlhi, Phillips wrote that the disciplinary letter she and her fellow DDG Mahlangu received were based “on allegations that she authorised the War on Leaks payments of which those payments led to the increased incurred irregular expenditure.

 

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What a useless govt!

Is Cyril Ramaphosa and his evil henchman looking for something to charge Lindiwe Sisulu with before the ANC national elective conference? I know you satans from Daily Maverick would know

Every anc member is corrupt

Africans 😂😂😂😂😂

Should we get FBI protection for the whistleblower?

Deny and avoid. Deny and avoid. Deny and avoid. We know the ANC drill.

Look for the money laundering scheme in Cuba with this auntie

I see Lindiwe Sisulu is also in that article. LindiweSisuluSA

Since Lindiwe Sisulu came into government some 26 years ago she has managed to destroy every single portfolio in which she was the Minister responsible. Next in line is Tourism. She has done more harm to SA than a Russian invasion would.

It wasn't mislaid....it was pocketed!

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