Inside Politics Reporter
Former ANC Member of Parliament and chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), Manyaba Rubben Mohlaloga, was ordered to report to the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Wednesday to begin serving a 20-year prison sentence for fraud and money laundering.
The order stems from a corruption case investigated by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation Unit, first registered in Brooklyn in October 2012.
Investigators found that in February 2008, while Mohlaloga chaired Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Agriculture and Land Affairs, a grant of R6 million was irregularly paid to an entity on the verbal instruction of the then CEO of the Land Bank, Philemon Mohlahlane, without following required approval procedures.
The Land Bank, which managed the AgriBEE Fund valued at R100 million to support the empowerment of previously disadvantaged farmers, alerted authorities to the irregular payment. Mohlaloga was later found to have personally benefitted
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