{"id":153413,"date":"2017-01-29T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=153413"},"modified":"2017-01-29T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T07:05:53","slug":"motsoeneng-cleared-over-alleged-fraudulent-housing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/153413\/motsoeneng-cleared-over-alleged-fraudulent-housing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Motsoeneng cleared over alleged fraudulent housing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng and\u00a0Fikile Mbalula\u2019s wife, Nozuko,\u00a0no longer face legal action over millions which were paid to them in an alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/194660-hlaudi-motsoeneng-gets-huge-payout-from-fraudulent-r1-billion-housing-scheme-report.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>fraudulent housing scheme<\/strong><\/a> run by the Free State government.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Sunday Times,\u00a0the\u00a0Free State government has backtracked on its plans to sue contractors involved in the scheme during 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action was intended to recover over R600 million for the upfront payment for 14,000 RDP houses.<\/p>\n<p>A government official said they were going to recover money paid to\u00a0material suppliers, not the contractors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe official said Motsoeneng and Mbalula would not be sued for money paid to them for 450 houses they were to build in Bloemfontein and Virginia,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>Court papers show that\u00a0Motsoeneng and Mbalula, as trustees of the Imbuma Trust and MM Development Trust, received millions between 2010 and 2011 to build 450 low-cost houses \u2013 none of which were ever built.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial department of human settlements would not detail how the trusts qualified for the housing project.<\/p>\n<p>According to previous reports, the payments were made because allocated funds were not being spent by the Free State and there was the threat of them being moved to other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The province had spent 10% of the R1.3 billion allocated by the National Treasury for RDP houses at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full report is in the Sunday Times of 29 January 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/147325\/his-next-move-is-to-go-to-jail-maimane-on-motsoeneng\/\" target=\"_blank\">His next move is to go to jail: Maimane on Motsoeneng<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng and Fikile Mbalula\u2019s wife, Nozuko, no longer face legal action over millions which were paid to them in an alleged fraudulent housing scheme run by the Free State government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":53227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-153413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153415,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153413\/revisions\/153415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}