This article was first published by SACSIS and also published in the Cape Times.

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3695463

A government that is a danger to the people

February 26, 2010 Edition 1

Richard Pithouse

THE degeneration of the ANC has reached the point where it poses a clear and present danger to the integrity of society.

Julius Malema is one of the more flamboyant examples of how a movement committed to national liberation has become, in the words of Frantz Fanon, "a means of private advancement". But Malema is hardly alone. The Communication Workers Union is entirely correct to have diagnosed an "embedded and deep-seated Kebble-ism" within the ANC.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-11-26-hundreds-of-govt-officials-caught-for-housing-fraud

Hundreds of govt officials caught for housing fraud
NATASHA MARRIAN | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Nov 26 2009 13:10

A total of 923 government officials have been brought to book by the Human Settlement Department's crackdown on corruption, Minister Tokyo Sexwale said on Thursday.

"We are hot on the steps of other people in government," Sexwale said at a housing settlement meeting in Boksburg. "We cannot allow people to turn the poor into a business. This is morally reprehensible."

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4985930

Four arrested over shack building material

May 18, 2009 Edition 1

NOMPUMELELO MAGWAZA

FOUR people were arrested in Durban yesterday after they were found in possession of suspected stolen building material.

Sydenham police Superintendent Glen Nayager said that residents from the Foreman Road informal settlement had notified officers that the material, which was intended for the reconstruction of burnt shacks, was being stolen.

He said the police had watched the area and four men travelling in a bakkie with the building material were arrested yesterday.

http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=20559

Officials in housing fraud of R26 million
11 Mar 2009
Sapa

JOHANNESBURG — The national Housing Department had been cheated out of at least R26 million by state employees who obtained housing subsidies fraudulently, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) said yesterday.

Another 2 150 government employees are still under investigation for possible fraud, said SIU deputy head Faiek Davids.

He was briefing the media in Johannesburg on a broad forensic probe into housing corruption, which he said would run into 2012 and would also look at nepotism, fraud and corruption in tender processes.

http://www.isolezwe.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4612884

Bebesho ukubakhipha ngodli ezindlini zomxhaso

September 16, 2008 Edition 1

BAWINILE NGCOBO

KUSHUBE isimo eSiyanda, KwaMashu, eThekwini, izolo ngesikhathi abantu abahlala emijondolo yakule ndawo besho ukukhipha ngenkani abantu abebezofakwa ezindlini zomxhaso eziseKhulula ngase-Newlands West.

Amalungu omphakathi abedinwe eveva, ekhuza iziqubulo ezikhombisa ukungahambisani nokufakwa kwalaba bantu ezindlini, bebebabaza ukuthi bona namanje basahlala emijondolo, basalindile kodwa kukhona asebethola izindlu.