19/06/2026
🅱️REAKING: “Fraudster and Zimbabwean Pastor” with 3 South African IDs received a R500m tender from City Power‼️
🇿🇼The deal with the pastor using multiple IDs raises questions about Johannesburg power entity's financial dealings‼️
💰Witness Mazanga, a Zimbabwean pastor with three different South African identities, received contracts worth more than R500 million at City Power, despite being implicated in defrauding the broke Johannesburg-owned entity.
🎬The charismatic Zimbabwean preacher from Chosen World Ministries, managed to secure lucrative City Power tenders worth between R200 million and R600 million.
❌This occurred despite the municipal utility repeatedly flagging his operations for massive fraud.
A detailed investigative exposé published by News24 reveals deep-seated corruption and system manipulation within Johannesburg’s cash-strapped power utility.
The Core Allegations
Multiple Identities:
Mazanga, who also presents himself as "Reverend Witness Acts," allegedly navigated South African systems using three different identity profiles. One alternative name linked to his property ownership is Thembinkosi Ndlovu.
Business Network:
Contracts were funnelled through a network of companies sharing a single physical address in Ormonde, Johannesburg. These entities include Chosen Engineering, Waxing Great, and Tswelelopele Mohaung.
Defective Billing & Tenders:
City Power’s 2025/26 third-quarter performance report confirmed an active investigation into a R302.3 million suspicious payment to Chosen Engineering. Investigators note "misrepresentations" during bidding and fraudulent billing for infrastructure upgrades.
Utility Complicity and Disinformation:
Instead of blacklisting the contractor, City Power officials allegedly actively protected Mazanga. A internal law firm review exposed that the utility's media and communications department, led by spokesperson Isaac Mangena, launched a targeted disinformation and dirty-tricks campaign against investigative journalists to cover up the unfolding scandal.
🤑This controversy unfolds as City Power grapples with a catastrophic financial deficit exceeding R16 billion, leaving Johannesburg's electrical grid on the brink of collapse.
The exposé surrounding Witness Mazanga and City Power directly mirrors the systemic patterns of ANC-linked state capture and institutional corruption that have plagued South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
📈The political tolerance for this fraud has left Johannesburg's residents bearing the ultimate cost. While R4.9 billion in irregular expenditure and massive tender fraud drain the city's coffers, City Power is currently facing a catastrophic R16 billion financial deficit and an grid that requires R40 billion just to repair, resulting in rolling blackouts and infrastructure failure.
While the investigations focus heavily on the utility's internal collapse, the structural failures highlight critical aspects of how political networks enable and protect corrupt actors.
The rot extends into active political interference. In concurrent scandals hitting the utility, senior ANC officials have been directly implicated in extortion storms at City Power, where political figures reportedly met with executives to demand the dropping of disciplinary and fraud charges against compromised contractors.
The Mazanga narrative follows the classic blueprint of political patronage associated with the ANC's governance of Johannesburg.
How quick can we quickly get Madlanga into City of Joburg and its entities❓❓❓
When will citizens of Joburg and this country wake up❓❓❓
🇿🇼How many Zimbabweans and others are living in South Africa with fraudulent IDs❓❓❓
🎬In the next 20 years, we will have more Zimbabweans etc dominating South Africa citizens in power, leadership, politics, business and in numbers‼️
