
South Africa's Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has suspended senior correctional services officials as the Hawks investigate alleged fraud linked to a coal supply tender. According to The Citizen, a criminal case has been officially registered with the Hawks, the country's elite crime-fighting unit. The suspensions and the criminal probe mark an escalation in the handling of the alleged tender irregularities within the department, though further details of the investigation have not been disclosed.
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