Limpopo Education MEC Ishmael Kgetjepe was allegedly paid more than R1 million by a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) contracted by government to build toilets at rural schools.
The money, which Kgetjepe allegedly requested by phone or “in person”, is included in a confidential report compiled by independent auditors Nexia SAB&T, which The Mvula Trust, a nonprofit organisation focusing on water and sanitation development, hired to audit its books for the 2017/18 financial year.
The Mvula Trust won a multimillion-rand tender from the national department of basic education in 2012/13 as part of the Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Development Initiative (Asidi) to build toilets at schools in Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga.
Limpopo and the Eastern Cape, two of the country’s poorest provinces, have a severe lack of safe toilets at rural schools.
In 2017 alone, the trust received about R650 million from the department of basic education, according to its
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