Sadly provisions made by the Government to uplift previously disadvantage communities and farmers has once more been hijacked through a system continuously failing them The legacy left from apartheid is becoming a mere whisper in a breeze as the storm of corruption, fraud, theft and violent robbery is painstakingly been dismantled by a democracy achieved through hardship and endurance out of a struggle for Free Dom and Prosperity. 

The hardship is that people most deserving is worst effected and people that stayed in the country to work towards retribution and healing, people not rightfully to blame for monstrosities of the past have to foot the emotional bill that guilt has placed over them. The Government is functional and the systems working, but high profile criminals are ruthless and vengeance for past irregularities  are corrupting the poor ...

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MEDIA STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL MEDIA CENTRE: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE

Pretoria

01 March 2011

The SAPS unit, the Hawks has arrested four suspects - including a former Land Bank CEO and a former housing MEC in Gauteng. In 2008, we began an investigation when it became apparrent that some of the money that was allocated to the Land Bank to fund Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises who were struggling finanicially, was being used for other purposes than intended.

R100 million was paid into the AgriBEE Fund. Our investigation shows that R19 million of this was paid into a firm of attorneys. Of this, we will present evidence to show that R14 million was used to buy, among others, houses and cars - which is not what the fund was intended for.

Two suspects were arrested in Polokwane, another in Bella Bella, and the fourth handed himself over at the Brooklyn Police Station in Pretoria. The suspects face charges of fraud, theft and money laundering. They will appear in the Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria tomorrow.

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Enquiries	:	Col McIntosh Polela – Spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations of the SAPS (Hawks)
		082 475 1427 or 079 563 1625
		012 400 6584 / 6579
		dpci.communication@saps.org.za

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As a living room news blogger I sit and watch the once proud country being dismantled by the people through the people ....

by Petrus Viviers