Newsletter| Following City Press’ report on how Limpopo education MEC Ishmael Kgetjepe was allegedly paid about R1 million by the Mvula Trust, allegations of more payments have surfaced. The trust won a multimillion-rand tender to build toilets at schools
In 2012/13 the trust won a multimillion-rand tender from the national basic education department to build toilets at schools in Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga, as part of the accelerated schools infrastructure development initiative, Asidi.
This was after the trust’s management told Nexia SAB&T auditors, which was hired to audit its books in 2017/18, that Kgetjepe asked for the money for “his constituency work and various political work at branch level” when auditors enquired about payments during the audit that year. The trust’s auditors in 2016, SizweNtsalubaGobodo , which has since been merged with Grant Thornton , picked up the payments and questioned the amounts, but nothing happened thereafter, he said.
“It was said that if the payments were not made there was not going to be business. I think even SNG auditors found it difficult to understand and asked how management knew that the money was being paid, because there was no acknowledgement.” SNG-GT chief executive Victor Sekese confirmed that SNG was the auditor for the trust from July 1 2013 to June 30 2017. He declined to comment further, citing client confidentiality, but said SNG was satisfied at all times that it complied with the professional and legal requirements pertaining to the audit and reporting processes.“The Code of Banking Practice prohibits the bank from discussing client relationships with third parties,” he said.
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