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Watch: SA Justice Minister linked to half a million rand 'loan' from VBS broker

Justice Minister Thembi Simelane took a loan of more than half a million rand from a company that brokered unlawful investments of R349-million into VBS Mutual Bank by the Polokwane Municipality while she was mayor of the city in 2016. Pauli van Wyk explains what happened.
Watch: SA Justice Minister linked to half a million rand 'loan' from VBS broker

https://youtu.be/-qNwXe03I6Y


  • Video filmed by: Bernard Kotzé

  • Video edited by: Malibongwe Tyilo

  • Producer: Emilie Gambade

  • Subbing by: Caspar Greeff

Comments (3)

Rudolph Oosthuizen Aug 26, 2024, 05:50 PM

The ANC will have to be clever to keep Zuma's MK bunch out of Government in future because they have a lot of looting experience and will therefore be stiff competition to Ramaphosa's bunch on the corruption front.

Fanie Rajesh Ngabiso Aug 26, 2024, 08:23 AM

The ANC is no better than the apartheid government. The ANC crimes against humanity are just different.

Derek Jones Aug 26, 2024, 07:01 AM

Thanks to Pauli van Wyk (Daily Maverick) and Kyle Cowan (News24) this is being exposed. Our minister of justice now needs to prove she is not a crook or South Africa and the GNU is in real trouble.

Justin Hall Aug 26, 2024, 09:35 AM

She's quite possibly a crook and this is just what the weeding process looks like.