By AGISANANG SCUFF
27 June 2025- The Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation has successfully executed a J50 warrant of arrest on 27 June 2025, in Grobblershoop. This comes after the Hawks in Northern Cape, arrested the former Municipal Manager of Kheis Local Municipality, Joseph Floyd Leeuw (58), for alleged Contravention of Section 13A and related sub-sections of the Pension fund Act 24 of 1956, with 30 counts of the said contravention.
The Hawks spokesperson in Northern Cape, Lieutenant Colonel Tebogo Thebe said Leeuw is alleged to have failed to pay over pension deductions of the period October 2019 to June 2022 over to Consolidated Retirement Pension Fund (CFR). Thebe said failure to pay resulted in late payment interests to balloon to R8 545 980.
“Leeuw made a brief appearance before Grobblershoop Magistrate’s Court immediately after his arrest and he was released on R4000 bail. The matter was postponed to 5 August 2025,” he said.
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