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Isolezwe: Kudliwe ezikanokusho kwaMpisane

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Kudliwe ezikanokusho kwaMpisane

INTATHELI YESOLEZWE

OMAKHELWANE baphume bama izixongololo bebukela ithimba loKlebe elibizwa nge-Anti-Corruption Task Team lishaqa izimoto zikanokusho zomndeni waseThekwini oyizinjinga ezithathwe emzini wazo eLa Lucia izolo ekuseni.

Umndeni wakwaMpisane ongomacaphuna kusale eThekwini usale nezimoto ezimbili kuphela izolo emuva kokudlelwa inqwaba yezimoto, indlu, nempahla yasendlini ngabethimba ngamaphoyisa ashaqe izimoto ezingu-62 sekuhlangene nezomsebenzi.

Intengo yomuzi ilinganiselwa ku-R80 million.

Phakathi kwezimoto ezithathiwe kubalwa i-Ferrari, ama-Rolls Royce amabili, ama-Porshe amabili , yi-Maserati, yi-Hummer ne-Dodge Ram ezithuthwe ngamaloli abeshaye ujenga ngaphandle komuzi wabo.

Intengo yezimoto ezishaqwe kwaMpisane ilinganiselwa ku-R25 million. Abantu abahamba ngalezi zimoto eNingizimu Afrika bayabalwa ngoba zibiza izigidi kanti noma uzithenga ufaka i-oda bese ulinda isikhathi esithile futhi nentengo yazo awukwazi ukutshelwa yona ungakalifaki i-oda lokwenza isiqiniseko sokuthi imoto uyayithenga.
IMaserati nje ibiza R3.5 million neFerrari ibiza kusuka ku R2.9 kuya ku-R3.9 million.

Lezi zimoto ngezikaMnuz Sbu Mpisane nenkosikazi yakhe, uShauwn, abangabanikazi benkampani eyenza imisebenzi eyehlukene iZikhulise Cleaning Maintenance and Transport CC.

Izimoto ezithathiwe zizogcinwa endaweni okubekwa kuyo izimoto enkampanini i-Ian Wyles Auctioneers. Ukushaqwa kwezimoto zakwaMpisane kudale amabongo komakhelwane nalabo abebedlula ngezimoto bebukela kuthathwa izimpahla abanye bebuzana ukuthi ngabe seziyathathwa futhi njengasekuqaleni.

Incwadi egunyaza ukuba kudliwe izimpahla zakwaMpisane ikhishwe yijaji leNkantolo eNkulu yaseMgungundlovu emva kophenyo olunzulu olwenziwe ngoKlebe mayelana nezinsolo zokuthi iZikhulise yasebenzisa imininingwane engekho emthethweni ngesikhathi ifaka amaphepha enhlanganweni yosonkontileka, i-Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) ukuze kuvuleke iminyango yamathenda.

Ukwemukelwa kwemininingwane eyalethwa ngabakwaMpisane kule nhlangano kwadala ukuba bathole amathenda abalelwa ku-R140 million eminyangweni kahulumeni.

Incwadi yenkantolo igunyaza ukuba kudliwe impahla ebiza le mali yingakho kudliwe ngisho impahla yasendlini ngesikhathi kutheleka abe-Asset Forfeiture Unit.

Uma icala libalahla yonke le mpahla ingawela ezandleni zombuso. nakuba isinqumo sokuba kuthathwe izimpahla sikhishwe busululu emahhovisi eJaji, uMnuz Nkosinathi Chili kodwa uMpisane ubesebalinde esangweni lakwakhe abomthetho ngesikhathi betheleka ngabo-6 ekuseni izolo. UNkk Mpisane yena uhambe waziyela emsebenzini njengejwayelo kwasala ubaba wekhaya egade abebeqoqa izimpahla zakwakhe.

Abaphenyi abangene ngaphakathi emzini kaMpisane bebebabaza ubuhle bawo ngaphakathi besho nokusho ukuthi kunamakamelo amabili agcwele izicathulo zikaNkk Mpisane ezithe shaye emashalofini ambethe ubonda.

UNkk Mpisane uvela namuhla eNkantolo mayelana namacala athinta umkhonyovu wamathenda akhishwa iminyango ehlukene kahulumeni.

The Times: R140m in former Durban cop’s assets attached by Asset Forfeiture Unit

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R140m in former Durban cop’s assets attached by Asset Forfeiture Unit

The Asset Forfeiture Unit was on Wednesday morning attaching assets worth R140 million from former Durban metro police officer Sibusiso Mpisane, the Hawks said.

“The AFU together with the Hawks are executing a court order now. The assets are deemed as proceeds of a crime,” spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko said.

Mpisane allegedly misrepresented his construction company to the Construction Industry Development Board by submitting fraudulent gradings.

“He in turn won construction tenders worth R140 million.”

Mpisane became a millionaire after securing construction tenders to build low-cost government houses.

His wife, Shawn, who has been convicted of tax fraud, is on trial for tax evasion in the Durban Regional Court.

She is accused, among other things, of inflating invoices by more than R5 million to cut her tax bill. She has pleaded not guilty.

M&G: Darkness visible in JZ’s kingdom by the sea

http://mg.co.za/article/2012-07-19-darkness-visible-in-jacob-zumas-kingdom-by-the-sea

Darkness visible in JZ's kingdom by the sea

by Niren Tolsi

With the African National Congress beset by factionalism, is the province still 100% Jacob Zuma? Niren Tolsi investigates.

"Wherever I go I carry a gun these days," a longtime ANC member from the eThekwini region in KwaZulu-Natal said, "not because I am afraid of thugs or political opposition, but because I am afraid of my own."

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Sunday Times: Tax dodger’s R176m deal

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Tax dodger’s R176m deal
BRETT HORNER

A BUSINESSWOMAN is demanding the eThekwini municipality honour a secret R176-million housing contract on which it is backtracking.

The contract, which never went out to tender, was suspended after the city’s legal advisers pointed out that Mabongi Shauwn Mpisane had a criminal record.

Mpisane and her husband, former city policeman Sibusiso Mpisane, are known for their flashy lifestyle and for hosting lavish parties attended by celebrities and high-ranking politicians.

Mpisane’s company, Zikhulise Cleaning, Maintenance and Transport, of which she is sole director, is also listed in a forensic report on alleged financial irregularities and tender fraud within the municipality.

The company has received more than R300-million in housing contracts from the city over the past five years – excluding the one for R176-million – while Mpisane is facing 172 new tax-related charges.

And, despite probes into Mpisane and her company by the municipality, the provincial housing department and the SA Revenue Service, in September last year the municipality gave her the contract to build and complete 2114 low-cost homes in Umlazi, south of Durban.

Normal tender procedures were not followed and the city suspended the contract after being advised to do so by its legal department.

The Sunday Times has established that Mpisane instructed her lawyers to force the municipality to reverse its decision.

In a letter dated December 6 2011 from lawyer Themba Mjoli, the municipality was given a 24-hour deadline to reverse its decision. “Unless you do so immediately … our instructions are to seek appropriate relief from the high court on an urgent basis,” he wrote.

This week Mjoli declined to comment, saying he had just returned from holiday and was unaware if the city had responded. Municipal spokesman Thabo Mofokeng failed to answer questions forwarded to him.

According to municipal documents, Mpisane’s company was hand-picked for the tender by the city’s bid adjudication committee in September last year – despite it being tarnished by claims of poor workmanship in several of its projects.

Documents seen by the Sunday Times show that the committee used Section 36 of the procurement policy to bypass the normal public tender route.

However, a month later the municipality’s legal department objected and, on two separate occasions, warned the committee to reverse its decision.

In two scathing letters, legal advisers questioned the selection of Mpisane’s company, saying she had been convicted of VAT fraud in 2005.

At the time, the company was fined R15000 and Mpisane received a three-year jail term suspended for five years.

The advisers also said the Close Corporations Act prohibited Mpisane from owning a business because of her conviction and sentence.

“The amount of public money involved is such that the [committee] is obliged to follow the public tender process, so that council can get value for money,” it said.

Housing head Cogi Pather wrote to Mpisane on December 2 explaining their decision to suspend the contract. Mjoli responded: “You are undoubtedly aware that the impugned decision was taken and made arbitrarily and capriciously.”

The lawyer attacked the municipality for ignoring the cost to Zikhulise of paying “1000 employees” and “18 subcontractors”.

“On a more serious note, the community, which is currently awaiting being accommodated before the builder’s shutdown, is likely to be seriously angered by your impugned decision.”

Mjoli also questioned the applicability of the Close Corporations Act in view of the fact that Mpisane’s sentence had been suspended.

Council minutes show that the tender in question was simply reconfigured from an old deal in 2006 for the construction of 3100 homes in Umlazi.

The Mpisanes were then appointed as the main contractors but, after the auditor-general denounced the deal as highly irregular two years ago, work came to a halt.

But early last year the provincial human settlements department approved the new, re-jigged contract to finish the work.

In 2010 forensic auditors Ngubane & Co recommended an investigation into Zikhulise and 34 other contractors.

Two years ago, the Special Investigating Unit also began a probe of payments linked to a R37-million housing project in Durban’s Lamontville township involving Mpisane.

The DA’s Tex Collins, who has cried foul over the municipality’s procurement practices for years, said: “Clearly all is not well … any such work [Mpisane’s company is involved in] should be stopped immediately for investigation.”

Mpisane and her husband, meanwhile, spent an estimated R1-million on an Egyptian-themed seventh wedding anniversary in March last year.

Guests included socialite Khanyi Mbau, Khulubuse Zuma and May Mkhize, wife of KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize.

M&G: eThekwini’s big spenders

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eThekwini’s big spenders
QUDSIYA KARRIM DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Jul 15 2011

She’s the business magnate whose company has secured more than R300-million in housing tenders, the bling queen who hosts spectacularly lavish parties and the wife of a former Durban Metro cop who used to drive to work in a Lamborghini.

Shawn Mpisane appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of tax evasion and fraud involving at least R2.5-million. After the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and the Hawks raided her La Lucia mansion in June she turned herself over to police.

She is out on R50 000 bail and is challenging the legality of the warrant issued for the raid on her home. She has a previous tax-fraud conviction.

In recent years she and her husband, Sibusiso, have shared the spotlight as much for unsavoury controversy as for their big spending.

Sibusiso Mpisane features in crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli’s controversial intelligence dossier outlining an alleged plot against President Jacob Zuma, which involves a number of key ANC figures in KwaZulu-Natal.

In the dossier Mpisane is described as a close friend of national police commissioner Bheki Cele.

An accountant by profession, Shawn Mpisane had a relatively low public profile until her company, Zikhulise Cleaning, Maintenance and Transport, was awarded a R300-million tender by the eThekwini municipality to build low-cost houses in Umlazi in 2009.

The National Home Builders’ Registration Council reportedly found defects in more than a third of these homes. An investigation by The Mercury in January 2010 found that the project remained unfinished because of insufficient funds.

Mpisane claimed her company had received no money from the municipality since October 2009. But records showed that more than R50-million was transferred electronically from the eThekwini municipality to Zikhulise in November and December 2009, weeks before the Mpisanes hosted a glitzy New Year’s Eve bash.

Flashy fleet

Sibusiso Mpisane showed off his new black Rolls-Royce Ghost with personalised numberplates to guests who included Cele; Jacob Zuma’s nephew, Khulubuse Zuma; socialite Khanyi Mbau and half the cast of Generations.

The R10-million car is one of 30 in his luxury fleet. In 2007 the Mpisanes paid R3.5-million for a property adjacent to their R12-million, three-storey home, which was converted into a garage to house their car collection.

Last March Sars seized the couple’s Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible and two Lamborghinis worth a total of R16.5-million to cover outstanding taxes. The vehicles were returned after they had paid the amount in instalments.

The Mpisanes made headlines again in April when they splurged almost R1-million on birthday and wedding celebrations in a single weekend. Shawn presented her husband with a white R1.8-million Maserati GranCabrio at his 40th birthday party at their La Lucia home.

Earlier that day the couple renewed their wedding vows at the five-star Fairmont Hotel and Resort in Zimbali. The 180 guests included Khulubuse Zuma, billionaire businessman Vivian Reddy and ZAR Lounge owner Kenny Kunene. Oysters, sushi, champagne and three different types of French cognac were on the menu. The flowers alone reportedly cost R300 000. “We are a couple who like class,” Sibusiso told journalists.

The former cop and lobola negotiator for Cele’s wedding last year is no stranger to run-ins with the law. In 1998 he was embroiled in a court case involving the Gcaba brothers, who were allegedly responsible for a shooting outside the Durban High Court. Mpisane’s car was one of several getaway vehicles used by the gang.

Sibusiso Mpisane turned state witness against the Gcabas but disappeared before testifying. They were acquitted and he quietly returned to work after a year-long absence.

In 2008 the Democratic Alliance launched an investigation into Mpisane’s lavish lifestyle, questioning how a police officer who reportedly earned R15 000 a month could own a Lamborghini and a multimillion-rand mansion. The party also questioned Mpisane’s ownership of several businesses while still a full-time policeman. He quit the SAPS shortly afterwards to join his wife at Zikhulise.

According to a 2004 Soros Economic Development Fund report, Zikhulise began in 2002 with small contracts to renovate schools in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2003, it delved into construction and began securing multimillion-rand housing tenders shortly after.

The report also reveals that Mkhize negotiated a R1.45-million loan with construction financing company Nurcha for the building of 307 housing units in KwaZulu-Natal.

In 2004, Zikhulise was awarded a R10.4-million tender from eThekwini municipality and the KwaZulu-Natal housing department to develop 277 houses in Lamontville. Two of the homes were demolished last August after being declared unsafe, while several others had serious defects including cracked walls and roofs and broken windows.

Mpisane’s late mother, Dumazile Mkhize, an eThekwini ANC councillor, was listed as a member of Zikhulise at the time the Lamontville tender was announced. She resigned from the company a month later.

Mpisane’s tax fraud case will resume in September. According to the Daily News, her husband signed an affidavit last week claiming he was threatened by members of the Hawks on July 2 to persuade him to provide evidence against Cele, whom they were investigating for procurement corruption.

Mpisane reportedly alleged that one of the Hawks threatened to arrest him if he did not co-operate, but later apologised for his conduct. He has asked the police service to investigate.