# Collen Mashawana Foundation chair, Collen Mashawana has denied involvement in building suspended Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka’s luxury house. A Daily Maverick report implicates Luande Mukhethwa Properties, linked to Mashawana, in payments to a contractor on the project. The company says the transactions were routine, with no knowledge of Malaka’s link. Attention also turned to Mashawana’s foundation after receiving funding to implement Expanded Public Works Programme initiatives. The foundation allegedly made payments toward the property while the IDT transferred over 23-million-rand to his foundation.
Mashawana Foundation denies role in IDT CEO Malaka’s house build