
How tens of millions of rands were siphoned off under the guise of bringing the North Sea Jazz Festival to Durban.
The hot winds that signal political climate change may, it seems, finally be blowing through the foothills of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
But before we tell you the exciting news, a recap from nose154 of August 2012: “As, increasingly over time, shady businessmen and other criminal elements in pursuit of government contracts, favours and protection have corrupted South Africa’s politicians and infiltrated its political structures, so the politicians in power and friends in crime have made common cause in undermining the country’s law-enforcement agencies.
“The word is out: to survive in the police or prosecution services you must be either very brave – or bent.
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