'Man with the master plan' cons South Africa's poor [Why this country disgusts me]

SHOOT: He's a government worker.

clipped from www.sowetan.co.za TWO months ago a disgruntled man, who claimed he had paid a R3000 deposit for an RDP house, walked into the Sowetan offices in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. He wanted to “spill the beans” on a conman he had paid six months earlier for the sought-after RDP house. We teamed up with e.tv’s 3rd Degree to see if we could buy a house. The middleman led us to former Ekurhuleni municipal official Bafana Ntuli, who had already raked in thousands of rand from unsuspecting house hunters. Tall and well-built, Ntuli proudly declared that he was selling the houses with the help of Ekurhuleni municipal officials. Ntuli set the ball rolling by jokingly saying: “The legal beneficiaries should wait because the reason one is on the waiting list is that that particular person is prepared to wait. So let them wait.” Without a hint of shame he told me: “I am the man with the master plan and all I need from you is R3000 deposit.