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02 May 2023
Times Live
Vehicles with trailers were used to load millions of rand worth of goods from the Fish River Resort in the Eastern Cape in a massive looting spree during the weekend.
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02 May 2023
Algoa FM
What was intended to be SA’s premier film location has been plundered beyond rescue leading to a loss of jobs and hundreds of millions of rands in potential revenue.
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30 January 2023
SANews
A restitution claim was lodged with the Mpumalanga Regional Land Claims Commission on behalf of the Kaapsche Hoop Community in 1998...
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27 January 2023
GroundUp
100 houses allocated to victims of the Group Areas Act
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19 January 2023
Daily Maverick
During forced removals in the apartheid era, Stellenbosch University acquired land where a Bellville cemetery was located. Residents in this area are now engaging with the university in a restitution process.
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08 December 2022
Daily Maverick
Despite his reputation as a politician who presided over several Mpumalanga government departments wracked by vulgar corruption, Deputy President ‘DD’ Mabuza hardly ever responds to announcements about fresh probes into his misdeeds. So the press release his office issued on Wednesday in response to a criminal complaint laid against him is remarkable – both for breaking the silence and for illustrating the weakness of his defence.
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06 December 2022
Times Live
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has referred a criminal complaint which names Deputy President David Mabuza and 12 others to the ID.
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05 December 2022
Daily Maverick
On the morning of 5 December 2022, the Investigating Directorate of the NPA received a criminal complaint from the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, with Deputy President DD Mabuza named as the lead suspect. The allegations cover a litany of charges that stretch from 2002 to the present day, mainly to do with the ‘land claims scam’ and the case of conservationist and whistle-blower Fred Daniel. For the first time, all aspects of the case are submitted in a single affidavit, including the contents of the “missing dockets” as reported by Daily Maverick in August 2022. “Hotlinks” to the attendant evidence are also included in the complaint.
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07 December 2022
SABC news
OUTA says it believes there is sufficient evidence for NPA to investigate 13 people including Deputy President, David Mabuza over an alleged R35-billion land restitution scam.
Restitution read moreLedwaba – whose first book “Broke and Broken” (2016) focused on the exploitation of mine workers – brings to light land reform and land rights
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