A senior South African National Defence Force soldier is accused by her colleagues of swindling them out of hundreds of thousands of rands in an alleged army-related business scam.
Two other colleagues similarly allege that Seremane approached and asked them to invest in a tender she had with the UN in Johannesburg. According to Seremane’s accusers, she had claimed that the contract was to supply army equipment required for a peacekeeping mission. to give her side of the story, but then referred the newspaper to her lawyers, who were later sent questions. R3.5-million.
The angry investor turned to her lawyers, Laubscher Prokureurs, and asked for the money, with interest. In a July 17 2019 lawyers letter, seen by theThrough her lawyers, Seremane responded by proposing a repayment in instalments of R12 000 a month, starting from December 15 2019, and thereafter on the 15th of every month. She committed to paying the legal fees of R9 173.03 that had been incurred.
The lawyers added: “Furthermore the interest of 10.15% should be in accordance with the prescribed interest rate.” The documents also indicate that Mahlangu cancelled the partnership agreement due to Seremane’s misrepresentation of the alleged tender.She allegedly also swindled R10 000 from another colleague, Sergeant Prince Matlala.
Our law enforcement agencies are infested by crooks, scam artists, thugs, rapists, abusers and all sorts of shady characters, we're like sitting ducks SA and face more threat from within than from without!🙏😕