{"id":56235,"date":"2014-04-24T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=56235"},"modified":"2014-04-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:41:10","slug":"pinnacle-executive-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/56235\/pinnacle-executive-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle executive in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case involving an executive director at listed ICT group, Pinnacle Holdings, has been postponed until July.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS) announced on 24 March that Takalani Tshivhase had been arrested on 5 March 2014 on charges of bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Tshivhase\u00a0allegedly offered a lieutenant general in the technology management environment of the SAPS R5 million to secure a multimillion rand tender for his company.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the allegations, Pinnacle said that \u201cMr Tshivhase denies all allegations of attempted bribery, and will defend the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pinnacle issued the following statement on SENS on Thursday (24 April):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Tshivhase appeared in court this morning, 24 April 2014, where the matter was postponed until the 2nd July 2014.<br \/>\n&#8220;The company will review the matter as further information becomes available and will inform shareholders accordingly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Pinnacle<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to More share dumping at Pinnacle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54957\/more-share-dumping-at-pinnacle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More share dumping at Pinnacle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pinnacle CEO denies insider trading\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54901\/pinnacle-ceo-denies-insider-trading\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pinnacle CEO denies insider trading<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pinnacle shares crushed on bribery charge\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54804\/pinnacle-shares-crushed-on-bribery-charge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pinnacle shares crushed on bribery charge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tech businessman arrested for alleged corruption\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54767\/tech-businessman-arrested-for-alleged-corruption\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tech businessman arrested for alleged corruption<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case involving an executive director at listed ICT group, Pinnacle Holdings, has been postponed until July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,7677],"class_list":["post-56235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-pinnacle-holding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56237,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235\/revisions\/56237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}