Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala
Tender value: R50M paid out (R228M contract)
Court ruling: Rejected an 8-year plea deal for being "too lenient " proposed 12 years effective jail time.
Michael Lomas
Tender value: R745M (Kusile power station scheme)
Court ruling: 15-year fully suspended sentence — 0 days behind bars.
Different rules for different people. ⚖️🇿🇦
What kind of sentencing is this? Almost a billion lost in corruption & he gets to go home? If our courts & NPA are so lenient on corruption, how the hell do they imagine the war against it will be won? At this stage of our democracy & development, corruption of this magnitude is the biggest cause of state and developmental failure!
Terrible sentencing! Mcm!
[BREAKING NEWS] Eskom contractor Michael Lomas gets suspended sentence after pleading guilty to pocketing R745 million and channeling bribes.
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