Fort Hare's vice-chancellor, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, speaks during a DA oversight visit to the university on 9 May 2023. The visit followed assassination attempts on senior staff members at the university. Ansa Smith, assistant to alleged mastermind Isaac Plaatjies. Photo: Supplied According to the State’s indictment, human resources director Paul Tladi was a second mastermind of the alleged scheme to defraud the University of Fort Hare.
The indictment names Buhlungu as a victim of the “criminal enterprise” set up at the university. It also alleges that these crimes were fuelled by kickbacks paid by the private sector for lucrative forensic investigations and bodyguards.Secret briefings, money trails revealed as more Fort Hare officials and auditors appear in court
According to the State’s case, they devised and operated a scheme to create an “atmosphere of terror” on campus, making it easy to authorise deviations from normal procurement processes and allowing them to bypass normally stringent tender procedures that have been in place since 2019. Plaatjies and his assistant, Ansa Smith, then “vetted” these companies.
This is one of the allegations made by the prosecution in a provisional indictment setting out several charges of crime and corruption against university employees and prominent private sector business owners who allegedly paid the kickbacks. University of Fort Hare VC’s roller-coaster ride for justice in face of murder and criminal syndicates
In April 2019, the State alleges, all the accused, except for Plaatjies and the university’s human resources director, Paul Tladi, are in Buhlungu’s inner circle and start implying that the Fort Hare campus is a dangerous place. This necessitates bodyguards and forensic investigations. 5 August 2022: The Special Investigating Unit starts an investigation into tenders and degree programmes at the university.
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