Little progress has been made in the case I laid six months ago against Mr Carl Niehaus and others allegedly implicated because they did not take action against his admitted fraud when he was CEO of the Gauteng Economic Development Agency (GEDA).
Key people, including former premier Paul Mashatile (now Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture), former premier Mbhazima Shilowa (now an MP), and former MEC Angie Motshekga (now Minister of Basic Education) have still not been interviewed. The charge against them is that they allegedly failed to report Niehaus's fraud, which is an offence in terms of section 34 of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act.
Niehaus himself has not been interviewed.
I have laid a complaint today with the Independent Complaints Directorate concerning what I regard as misleading information given to me on progress in this case by Richard N Mdluli, presently Commissioner in the Crime Intelligence Division, but formerly Deputy Provincial Commissioner for Gauteng (see letter below).
In a letter dated 30 June 2009, Mdluli informed me that investigations "are almost finalised with only a very few statements yet to be received as they have been already requested from the affected parties which go beyond the name list of the people who were already implicated on the media article that was published."
According to the letter "The delay is not from the Police but as a result of these companies who have to refer the allegations leveled against them to their Legal departments for legal assistance and taking into account the duration of the actual incident when it took place".