MILLIONS of rands paid out for memorial services for Nelson Mandela were splurged on luxury cars‚ jewellery and high-end clothing by a controversial Durban businessman — and some of it found its way into the account of one of the first ladies‚ the Sunday Times reported.It said it could today reveal that politically connected businessman Mabheleni Ntuli was paid R18-million by an events management company owned by businesswoman Carol Bouwer‚ who enlisted Ntuli as a subcontractor to supply infrastructure for memorial services for Mandela in December 2013 across Mpumalanga.Bouwer’s company‚ Carol Bouwer Productions‚ had been paid R39-million by the Mpumalanga provincial government as the main contractor to organise memorial services to mark Mandela’s death.The money trail seen by the Sunday Times shows that Bouwer subsequently paid out four tranches of R4.5-million each into the bank account of Dartingo Trading 20‚ a company solely owned by the flamboyant Ntuli.Read the full story here...
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