Kimberley - The Northern Cape High Court has found the CEO of Trifecta Holdings, Christo Scholtz, and ANC provincial chairman John Block guilty in of corruption.
The pair were accused alongsideformer MEC for Social Development, Alvin Botes in the multi-million rand fraud, corruption and money laundering case.
The accused allegedly received kickbacks in the form of shares, cash and renovations to their properties in exchange for facilitating government leases at inflated prices.
The fourth accused, the former HOD for Social Development, Yolanda Botha, died in December 2014 after being diagnosed with skin cancer that later spread to her brain.
* The judgment is still being handed down and the story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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