Khoza’s bid to get corruption report removed fails

FORMER board chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas), Ernest Khoza, has lost a bid to challenge the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) to remove the report implicating him in corruption.

- MANYANE MANYANE

This after the Johannesburg High Court dismissed his application for Outa to remove the report from its website.

It was Khoza’s second attempt after he wrote to Outa, through his attorneys, demanding the removal of the report shortly after it was published last year.

The report, which was published in January 2024, exposed how Khoza and former Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande, defrauded Nsfas through kickbacks from service providers.

Khoza did not respond to calls and messages.

Khoza argued that Outa was no mere private party, and that the default common law position did not apply to it.