SAs top 10 tenderpreneurs

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Julius Malema
The provisional charge sheet against the former ANC Youth League leader reveals that Malema generated generous income from a R53 million Limpopo roads tender awarded to a company partly owned by his family trust. Whether he received the money illegally must still be proven by the state

They make the news and lots of money from doing business with government

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Lesiba Gwangwa
Gwangwa is Malemas business partner and CEO of On-Point Engineers, the company at the centre of the R53 million tender for which he, Malema and others were criminally charged. Gwangwa has made his fortunes off Limpopo government tenders

Robert Gumede
The IT entrepreneur launched his business career on the back of government tenders from national and provincial state departments. His biggest scores have been tenders from Telkom, the State Information Technology Agency and Home Affairs

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Roux Shabangu

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Schabir Shaik
President Jacob Zumas former nancial adviser scored big tenders from the departments of defence and transport through his Nkobi group before he was jailed for corruption and fraud in 2005

Gavin Watson
Watson is the CEO of Bosasa Operations, a company dealing almost exclusively with the state. Bosasa has made hundreds of millions of rands from tenders with the departments of correctional services, transport and justice

The property developer started out developing shopping centres, but moved to doing business with government. Shabangus companies have deals with the Land Bank and the department of public works (DPW), which procures long-term leases for government agencies and departments. But the DPW has moved to cancel some of the leases with him for buildings to host the police

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David Mabilu
The millionaire property developer has made his riches off construction tenders (low-cost housing, schools, hospitals and clinics) with the Limpopo and Gauteng provincial governments, and municipalities in the two provinces. Last year Mabilu ew hundreds of his friends, including Malema, to Mauritius for a lavish wedding, estimated to have cost R15 million

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Gaston Savoi
The Uruguayan businessman and his Intaka company is currently on trial for allegedly bribing politicians and civil servants in KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape who bought his water puriers and oxygen plants for millions of rands

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Shauwn and Sbu Mpisane
Durbans most glamorous couple have made their millions from low-cost housing tenders, awarded by the eThekwini Municipality to Shauwn Mpisanes Zikhulise Cleaning, Maintenance and Transport. She is currently on trial for tax evasion and fraud

Theunis Crous

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Better known for his high-prole affair with Khanyi Mbau, Crous was a construction tenderpreneur in the Eastern Cape until his company, Ho Hup Corporation, was liquidated last year. He built hospitals and houses, and also did work in Botswana and Madagascar

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