# The Daily Maverick reports that suspended Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka’s benefactor is the Collen Mashawana Foundation and Afribiz Group chair, businessman Collen Mashawana. The foundation allegedly received a 60-million-rand IDT contract to run employment schemes, despite lacking large-scale experience. Records show Mashawana made payments toward Malaka’s luxury property while the IDT transferred over 23-million-rand to his foundation. Meanwhile, hundreds of Expanded Public Works Programme workers remain unpaid, sparking concerns that public funds were misused.
Afribiz Group chair Mashawana linked to Malaka in IDT funding controversy