Previouly – Sizani, wife of SA ambassador to Germany Stone Sizani, faces 16 counts of fraud and 10 counts of money laundering. It is alleged that between 2009 and 2010, Sizani created “ghost” teachers and took their salaries, amounting to R1.2m. As co-ordinator, she was in charge of appointing grade R teachers at Eastern Cape schools. The Equal Education NGO, which has been following the case, said she is accused of allegedly obtaining the personal details of teachers, applying for posts on their behalf and falsifying the principal’s signature of approval. Once the money was paid by the department into the teachers’ accounts, Sizani would allegedly inform them that a mistake had been made and that the money should be paid back to her. She denies this.
Die skep van “spook onderwysers” wat geld ontvang, naamloses en die geld verdwyn in Pankie se rekening. Het die spokies in xhosa gepraat of grieks – sy is omring met spokies wat haar help steel het. Almal praat haar taal en sy was die koordineerder van die spook onderwysers in die “korrupte” onderwêreld en leef dan in ontkenning. Watter tale is hierdie spook onderwysers magtig – een – korrupsie taal.
29 March 2019
Portia Sizani, wife of SA’s ambassador of Germany Stone Sizani, was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering at the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court. According to the state, Sizani allegedly defrauded the Eastern Cape education department out of more than R1.2 million by processing several fraudulent applications for Grade R teaching posts.
Sizani started working for the department as a teacher in East London in 1991 and slowly climbed up the ranks. Her husband was the former education MEC and resigned from that position in 2002.
https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/2108453/portia-sizani-found-guilty-of-fraud/
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Portia Sizani is the wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany, Stone Sizani. She was convicted of fraud and money-laundering. (dstv)
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March 2019
Portia “Pankie” Sizani has been convicted on 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering. The offences date back to when she was the education department’s early childhood development (ECD) district co-ordinator. Sizani, wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany, Stone Sizani, siphoned off more than R1.2m after she created “ghost teachers” and pocketed their salaries between 2009 and 2010. The Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court has released her on bail of R5,000 pending sentencing later this year. Portia Sizani, wife of SA’s ambassador to Germany, Stone Sizani, siphoned off more than R1.2m after she created ‘ghost teachers’ and pocketed their salaries. During the trial, several state witnesses told the court that “assumption of duty forms” had been completed and signed off by Sizani for teachers to take up positions at various schools in and around Port Elizabeth. According to the state, Sizani signed off at least 16 of these forms before sending them to the department of education’s human resources department and then to the finance department for payment. In 2015, the Herald newspaper reported on testimony by a Port Elizabeth woman who said Sizani told her to hand over R20,000 to her after money was deposited into her bank account by the Eastern Cape education department. This was done despite the woman not being employed by the department. She got R2,800 for her part in the deal.
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