She ain’t Beaming now: top cop in dock over ‘blue lights’ tender

Charges lay out how Lt-Gen Bonang Mgwenya managed to snag a flash BMW X5 by fiddling a deal for cop cars

12 October 2020 - 20:11 By ernest mabuza

Deputy national police commissioner Lt-Gen Bonang Mgwenya was arrested at her home in Irene after her usual morning jog on Monday morning in connection with a tender for the supply of emergency warning equipment for the police in 2017...

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