Charity, corruption and a suspicious house: We interview Pieter Louis Myburgh (Daily Maverick), who blows open IDT scandal
Daily Maverick’s exposé reveals how charity funds meant for the poor may have lined executive pockets.
Independent Development Trust (IDT) chief executive officer (CEO) Tebogo Malaka. Picture: Supplied/ Independent Development Trust on Facebook.com
702 and Cape Talk's Mandy Wiener chats to Pieter Louis Myburgh, Investigative Journalist at the Daily Maverick.
Listen to their conversation in the audio clip below:
The bribe didn't work; the story is out!
On 6 August 2025, the Daily Maverick released an explosive video, showing suspended Independent Development Trust (IDT) CEO Tebogo Malaka and IDT spokesperson Phasha Makgolane, allegedly offering Myburgh R60,000 in cash to stop reporting on corruption within the trust.
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Here's the story they didn't want you to see...
"This is the story that we were working on when this attempt was made to offer me the money... we had an investigation running since December last year. I was looking into Miss Malaka's property dealings."
- Pieter Louis Myburgh, Investigative Journalist - Daily Maverick
In Myburgh's latest Daily Maverick article, he writes about prominent Gauteng businessman Collen Mashawana, who made at least two payments toward a luxury home being built for Malaka, while his non-profit, the Collen Mashawana Foundation, secured a R60-million IDT contract to run employment programmes.
Shortly after the first payment, Mashawana’s foundation received R23-million in public funds, meant for Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers, but hundreds of participants reportedly went unpaid, raising serious concerns about potential misuse of funds.
"Collen Mashawana is a very prominent businessperson... he is also a philanthropreneur, as he calls himself. He is involved in all sorts of upliftment charity work... the issues we unpack in the story really cast doubt over his charitable orgranisation and his actual intentions because we now have a situation with the IDT who paid the Collen Mashawana Foundation a lot of money, at least R23-million that we know of, that looks to be part of a R60-million contract to do EPWP upliftment work... by all indication hundreds of these workers didn't get their rightful payments then at the same time you make these payments towards Miss Malaka's property..."
- Pieter Louis Myburgh, Investigative Journalist - Daily Maverick
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