By Simon Nare
The Economic Freedom Fighters has demanded the immediate suspension of Military Veterans Department acting director-general Nontobeko Mafu, who it accuses of gross corruption.
The party said on Wednesday that revelations in a Nexus Forensic Services Report showed how Mafu has allegedly used her position to milk the department dry with her involvement in serios financial misconduct over the years.
It said the report was released in January 2021, but it was classified as confidential.
According to the EFF, Mafu circumvented procurement prescripts in gross mismanagement of projects that cost millions of taxpayers’ money.
“This corruption and maladministration have run the DMV into the ground, rendering it incapable of delivering any of the 11 benefits enshrined in the Military Veterans Act No. 18 of 2011.
“The result has been severe neglect and untold suffering for South Africa’s Military Veterans, whose sacrifices for our liberation are being betrayed by
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