Ex-mayor given luxury car by VBS

A luxury car worth more than R600,000 was used to lure a former mayor into facilitating R30m of municipal funds into the VBS Mutual Bank.

This is one of the trails of evidence the state will use in a case against Avhashoni Tshifhango, the former mayor of Thulamela municipality in Limpopo, who allegedly accepted a Jeep Cherokee a month before he and the former municipal manager, Hlengani Emmanuel Maluleke, transferred R30m into the VBS account as an investment...