WATCH: Pieter-Louis Myburgh spills on IDT bribery and who settled the restaurant bill
Myburgh’s recent explosive investigative story left Mzansi’s collective jaws on the floor. He chats to Anele and Frankie.
Anele Mdoda speaks with Daily Maverick journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh. Photo: 947
947’s Anele and The Club speaks with Daily Maverick journalist, Pieter-Louis Myburgh.
Watch the interview below:
Daily Maverick recently shared video footage showing suspended CEO of the Independent Development Trust (IDT), Tebogo Malaka, attempting to bribe Myburgh to quash a story relating to her R16 million property in Waterfall, Midrand.
He has been investigating an IDT contract and its links to Malaka’s property.
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“The R60,000… that was actually a little bit of a sweetener… the real offer was the plug into IDT contracts. To bring contracts there and get tenders… that opens the door to millions of rands.”
– Pieter-Louis Myburgh, journalist – Daily Maverick
Malaka was suspended after a forensic investigation into the alleged irregular and corrupt R880 million hospital oxygen plant tender that was managed by IDT.
In a response to the now viral footage, Malaka’s family trust says she believes she was set up and demands the fully unedited video be released.
Myburgh says they will release the footage in the public’s interest.
“The reasonable person would wonder… she says 60… so it doesn’t seem very likely that she would not have been privy to what was going on there. She was sitting there… just before that she asked me to bury this Waterfall story.”
– Pieter-Louis Myburgh, journalist – Daily Maverick
And for those wondering, he did pay the bill!
“I had a single flat white, and for those wondering… the bill was paid. There were people on the ground looking after me, and the bill was quietly settled.”
– Pieter-Louis Myburgh, journalist – Daily Maverick
The next chapter in Myburgh's investigation for the Daily Maverick reveals that a prominent businessman in Gauteng benefited from millions from the IDT.
“As the public, it is our job to make sure that this doesn’t go away very quickly… It’s clearly there… something is amiss.”
– Anele Mdoda