A 65-year-old Mpumalanga pensioner has landed in a jail cell after learning that South Africa’s elite corruption-busting unit had obtained a warrant for his arrest over an alleged R1.5-million municipal fraud dating back almost four years.Henry Swart, a former Govan Mbeki Local Municipality employee who is now retired, handed himself over to the Hawks on Wednesday rather than wait for investigators to come knocking.His surrender completed a three-man arrest operation over money allegedly paid to a supplier for goods and services that never reached the municipality.Mpumalanga Hawks...

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