🇿🇦 Pieter Buys, a well-known mango farmer from Tzaneen, and former chairman of the South African Mango Growers’ Association, is recovering after being attacked on his farm.
The attacker struck Buys twice in the back of the head with a machete before attempting to strike his face. Buys grabbed the blade, overpowered the suspect, and held him until farm workers arrived.
Police are investigating the incident.
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Today’s testimony before the Madlanga Commission lays bare the rot that runs straight to the top of the SAPS, confirming what the Democratic Alliance has warned South Africans about for the past two years: corruption within the South African Police Service’s procurement environment was never the work of a few rogue officials. It appears to have been systemic, involving senior officials entrusted with safeguarding public funds who instead orchestrated a predatory procurement network for personal enrichment.
While violent criminals terrorise communities across South Africa, those sworn to protect the public were allegedly running a procurement mafia, diverting millions intended for policing into their own pockets. This is a betrayal of the highest order, and there can be no more excuses those responsible must be held fully accountable.
The DA therefore calls on the relevant law enforcement authorities to move swiftly. If the evidence supports the allegations emerging before the Commission, Lt Gen Molefe Fani must be arrested and criminally charged alongside every individual involved in this corrupt network.
Today's evidence paints an alarming picture of how individuals were allegedly communicating with Fani while he was still serving within Supply Chain Management at National Treasury. This raises a deeply troubling question that can no longer be ignored: was Fani deliberately positioned within SAPS Supply Chain Management to ensure that CAT ultimately secured the R360 million health tender?
This allegation strikes at the heart of public procurement integrity. If procurement officials were strategically placed to manipulate tender outcomes for politically connected companies, then this was not merely maladministration it was the deliberate capture of the SAPS procurement system.
For the past two years we have repeatedly warned that serious irregularities within SAPS procurement required urgent investigation.
At the end of 2024, following the Auditor-General's findings exposing serious procurement failures, the DA specifically challenged Fani to account for these glaring irregularities. He was unable to provide satisfactory answers. Instead of confronting the evidence, there was silence and evasion while public money continued to be placed at risk.
Today's testimony gives even greater weight to those concerns.
The evidence emerging before the Commission demands more than internal disciplinary processes or further excuses. It requires immediate criminal investigation.
Anyone who abused their public office to manipulate procurement processes, facilitate corruption or unlawfully influence the awarding of state contracts must face the full might of the law.
South Africans deserve a police service that fights corruption not one that is itself compromised by corrupt procurement officials enriching themselves at taxpayers expense.
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They’re affiliated with Nigerians and Pretending to be representing Tsonga people.
We live among snakes
Let’s expose them ‼️ Lemisunu
How it started, vs how it is going 🤣🤣!
This guy who claim to be a leader of the VhaTsonga Nation, is a good member of the EFF in standing. They are using VhaTsonga as a tool, to dismantle March and March.
The EFF is as a political party, is as dirty as its leader Julius Malema and their blesser Mazotti!