{"id":964876,"date":"2024-07-09T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964876"},"modified":"2024-07-09T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:52:09","slug":"fraud-case-against-former-northern-cape-hod-co-accused-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/fraud-case-against-former-northern-cape-hod-co-accused-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud case against former Northern Cape HOD, co-accused postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fraud case involving former Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture head, Ruth Palm and her two co-accused has been postponed for pre-trial by the Kimberley Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p>Palm, Chief Director of Corporate Services Bonakele Jacobs and Chief Financial Officer Andrian Coleridge face charges of fraud, money laundering and contravention of the Public Finance Management Act.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly paid a service provider R1.6 million for a festival that was scheduled to take place in Colesberg in 2016 but never occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The three accused made a brief appearance in court, and the matter was postponed.<\/p>\n<p>They are all out on R10 000 bail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FILE : Nehawu calls for suspension of N Cape Sport, Arts and Culture HOD<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHBtbgbyq2k?si=4TatMLJr0q6xPd_Y\" width=\"1060\" height=\"615\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fraud case involving former Ruth Palm, and two co-accused has been postponed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":964877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}