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In January 2008, Selebi was put on extended leave as national police commissioner, and resigned as president of Interpol, after he was charged with corruption in his native South Africa.[4]
He was replaced as national commissioner in July 2009 by Bheki Cele. Selebi was found guilty of corruption on 2 July 2010 [5] and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on 3 August 2010.[6].
His appeal against his sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal on the 2nd of December, 2011, after the court unanimously ruled against him.[7]
Presidency spokesperson Mac Maharaj said Godongwana had resigned to "pursue personal interests".
President Jacob Zuma had accepted the resignation and thanked the deputy minister for his dedicated service and duty to his portfolio and to the national executive in general, he said.
In June, Godongwana and his wife, Thandiwe, were reportedly linked to a company that disappeared with R100m in workers' pensions.
The SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) is trying to get back the R100m of pension funds from an investment company.
Deal
It was reported at the time that the money had been placed with Trilinear Empowerment Trust, which in 2007 agreed to lend R93m to Canyon Springs Investments 12 to buy an unnamed and unlisted company.
The deal did not happen.
Canyon Springs Investments 12 could not repay the loan as it had allegedly "lost" the workers' money.
The Godongwanas acknowledged to The Star newspaper that one or the other of them had been linked to Canyon Springs since at least November 2007.
They said Enoch Godongwana had been chairperson from November 2007 to May 2009, while his wife had been a non-executive director since May 2009.
The loan payments were made from March 2007 to December 2009, and the loan agreement was signed in February 2009.
The Cape Times reported on Monday that, according to Maharaj, Godongwana had approached Zuma in December asking to be relieved of his portfolio, but the president had asked him to stay on until mid-January.
Maharaj would not comment on the inquiry into the misappropriation of the pension money.
The Cape Times said the Godongwanas owned 50% of the shares in the company through a family trust.
Inquiry
Godongwana appeared before the inquiry late last year, but his evidence could not be reported as there was a possibility of him being recalled to give further testimony.
The inquiry was expected to resume this month.
It has so far led to two arrests - those of former pensions consultant Richard Kawie who, with Mohan Patel owned through family trusts the other 50% of shares in Canyon Springs; and Sam Buthelezi, who was the sole director of the black empowerment asset management company, Trilinear Capital.
Kawie reportedly facilitated the loan, which was invested by Trilinear, the Cape Times said.
Godongwana has denied being aware that clothing workers' provident fund money was involved in the loan made to Canyon Springs.
Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel's spokesperson Saleem Mowzer said the minister would not comment on the matter.
He referred all queries to Maharaj, saying: "The presidency is dealing with it."
Godongwana is a member of the ANC's economic transformation committee.
He was previously the deputy minister of public enterprises and served as a member of the provincial legislature in the Eastern Cape.
Democratic Alliance spokesperson Kobus Marais welcomed Godongwana's resignation.
"It does, however, raise questions about whether the deputy minister was pushed out of office before all the investigations into his actions have run their full course," he said.
Godongwana still needed to be held fully accountable for his involvement in Canyon Springs, and the investigations by the police and the public protector should continue until the true extent of "his involvement is established", Marais said.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Last-day-for-Deputy-Minister-Godongwana-20120116
Nombembe, who expressed concern about the financial controls in public sector spending, said this was an increase of R2.3bn compared with the previous financial year - because of his office's increased "scrutiny" of taxpayers' money.
The exact figure of R25.445bn includes the spending of government entities such as Eskom and the SA National Roads Agency Limited.
Addressing reporters in Pretoria this morning Nombembe said he felt the most discomfort about the area of financial reporting, where government officials failed to record the correct amounts spent.
He said financial information was often corrected by his own officials during the auditing process at the end of the financial year.
While national and provincial departments, including entities, reported R13.7bn in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful spending in their annual reports, the AG found a further R11.7bn through the final auditing processes.
Nombembe said financial managers should be trained to be able to report on finances correctly before all spheres of government could reach the target of clean audits by 2014.
"It (correct financial reporting) is the single and sole factor that will make clean audits in SA a reality. The role of the ministers, premiers, MECs, portfolio committees and Scopa [the standing committee on public accounts] is important," said Nombembe.
One of the "biggest weaknesses" in government as a whole was the effectiveness of information technology systems and controls, said Nombembe.
The AG report shows that at provincial government level irregular expenditure - incurred in contravention of national laws - was the biggest culprit at R16.8bn, followed by unauthorised expenditure (overspending on certain projects) at R2.9bn while fruitless and wasteful expenditure (spending in vain, which could have been avoided) stood at R850m.
At national government level irregular expenditure was R4.5bn, fruitless and wasteful expenditure R593m and unauthorised expenditure was R802m.
Nombembe expressed concern that most government departments did not understand the requirements for meeting service delivery objectives and that departments were apparently deliberately not reporting their finances accordingly.
"Financial reporting is the biggest area of concern where there is [a] supply chain. This is where we still find a number of omissions by departments in adhering to departmental norms.
"Once again it's an area, to a large extent, that does need to be given attention because there's constant deviation. It doesn't mean money has been lost, just that due processes are not embarked upon by government departments," said Nombembe.
He was also concerned with the high vacancy rate and called on government to employ skilled people who have an understanding of the basic accounting principles.
But Nombembe was pleased that senior government officials including the executive had committed themselves to improving the state of financial reporting and controls in the public sector.
He warned that unless the executive rise to the occasion and monitor financial controls in their respective departments Operation Clean Audit, set for 2014, would not be a reality.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Taxpayers-didnt-get-value-for-R25-billion-20120116-2
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Johannesburg - The University of Johannesburg will pay the tuition fees of the man whose mother died there in a stampede, it said on Wednesday.
"Although nothing can replace the 19-year-old prospective student's mother, UJ has offered to waive tuition for his choice of study at UJ, should he adhere to the programme choice's admission criteria," said registrar Professor Marie Muller.
The university community was deeply saddened by the events at its Auckland Park Bunting Road campus on Tuesday, she said.
"Our condolences to her family and friends and our thoughts go to the other applicants who were injured during the course of the morning's events."
Injuries
Gloria Sekwena was killed and at least 20 people were injured - three of them critically - in a stampede at the university's gates on Tuesday. She had been accompanying her son Kgositsile to see him through the applications process.
All but one of the injured had been discharged from hospitals in Gauteng on Wednesday.
The person still in hospital was transferred from Milpark Hospital to 1 Military Hospital in Tshwane and was to be visited by Muller and University vice chancellor Ihron Rensburg on Wednesday.
They would then visit Sekwena's family with Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
Security authorities had their hands full on Wednesday monitoring access to the university.
Anger
People gathered outside the gates were allowed in only if they had their conditional application documentation.
One angry mother shouted when they would not let her in, saying she had left the paperwork at home.
"I came here since Friday, but could not get in. But now you are also refusing me entry. You are treating us like dogs," said Colleen Jacobs.
She complained that she would now have to take more time off work to get her son into college.
Prospective student Bafana Gumede was still hoping for a chance to be allowed in, but said he realised he might have to look for something else.
"I will never ever come to the institution again - the congestion, overcrowding here will probably make it impossible for me to enjoy my studies," he said.
Out of touch
The Pan Africanist Youth Congress called for Nzimande's resignation on Wednesday.
"We call on the minister to do the honourable thing and resign his position," Payco said in a statement.
"He has proven not once but too many times that he is unable to fulfil his duties."
Payco predicted that others would die "through police brutality" when students started protesting against financial institutions next month.
The organisation blamed the ANC government for what it called the "shambles" in education, specifically for black children, and said Nzimande was out of touch.
Applications
The university closed late applications after the incident on Tuesday and said it would process only the 17 500 conditional applications it granted last year.
These were based on applications made in 2011 and which were subject to matric results and available space.
There have been 7 000 late applications submitted to the university since Monday.
Last year, it received 85 300 applications for study in 2012. It has 11 000 places for first year undergraduate studies.
Nzimande said the government was considering ending the late application practice and planned to roll out a centralised applications system, already being used in KwaZulu-Natal.
There were also plans to build another two universities in Mpumalanga.
In a statement earlier on Wednesday, the government called for a full investigation into the incident.
"The improvements in matric pass rates... should be cause for celebration, not tragedy... This is an unfortunate incident which we hope will be fully investigated," it said.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/UJ-to-pay-tuition-for-victims-son-20120111
