The Special Investigating Unit is committed to provide the highest quality professional forensic investigation and litigation service to all State institutions at national, provincial and local levels. The activities of the Unit are designed to effectively combat maladministration, corruption and fraud involving the administration of State institutions and to protect state assets and public money.
On establishment, the Special Investigating Unit was entrusted by the provisions of Section 2 of the SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNITS AND SPECIAL TRIBUNALS Act 74 of 1996 to deal with the whole spectrum of clean administration and the protection of the interests of the public with regard to public money and public property. Section 2 (g) is an exception as it is not State related and deals with private interests of categories of the public. The provisions of Section 2 cover a wide field of unlawful action, corruption and maladministration.
The involvement and profile of the Special Investigating Unit in the field of investigating maladministration, corruption, etc. is growing all the time. The public is becoming aware of the nature of the work that the Unit can do and the potential it has for the safeguarding and recovery of the assets of State institutions. The involvement of the Unit in almost all the Provinces of our country will lead to a dramatic increase in workload. The Unit is in a phase of growing and expanding in order to cope with these increased pressures.
Cases successfuly completed and/or in respect of which orders were granted from 01 April 1998 to 30 September 1998 amount to R501 261 000.00
