REWIND: What happened to our jazz fest R28m?

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DURBAN - In August 2013, the former editor of the Sunday Tribune, Jovial Rantao, wrote this column in the newspaper, connecting the dots and asking what had happened to more than R20 million that had been budgeted for a jazz festival that never took place.

The Sunday Tribune had reported on the matter a week earlier, with former Sunday Tribune journalist Jeff Wicks penning this article - "R28m wasted on KZN Jazz Festival".

And then today, on a Wednesday morning, five years later - the former KZN economic development MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu and his former head of department, Desmond Khalid Golding, handed themselves over to the police as the case finally found it's wayto court as Rantao had pleaded many moons ago.





The text below was written and published by former editor Jovial Rantao in the print edition of the Sunday on August 11, 2013.





Former Sunday Tribune editor Jovial Rantao asks back in August 2013, What happened to our jazz festival R28m?

The exposé carried exclusively and prominently by the Sunday Tribune last week (August 2013) should have all citizens of KwaZulu-Natal and indeed the country deeply worried.





We should all be annoyed about the fact that the province spent R28 million of our taxpayers' money and has nothing to show for it. What started as a noble project to secure a signature entertainment event to attract tourism and economic investment, has turned into what seems to be a classic case of fraud and