Pam Golding and SA law firm Jouberts Attorneys collectively managed R110.9-million, which turned out to be bribe payments to former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza's son, Ndambi - a possible violation of their legal obligations.

The iconic green emblem of Pam Golding's logo sits on posters at the gates of mansions sprawled across luxury neighbourhoods in South Africa (SA). The South African real estate giant has been a dominant force in the country's high-end property industry, but a judgment in Mozambique has implicated Pam Golding in a major corruption scandal.

Pam Golding has been named in a Maputo City Court judgment from 2022 that found the real estate agency accepted payments of more than R20-million into its bank account for former Mozambican President Armando Guebuza's son, Ndambi. A South African law firm, Jouberts Attorneys, was also named in the judgment for accepting millions for the younger Ndambi Guebuza, who will hereafter be referred to as Guebuza.

These payments were bribes that were paid to Guebuza by an Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilding company, the Privinvest Group, which benefited from corruption in Mozambique from 2013 to 2015. With the help of Pam Golding and South African lawyers, Guebuza splurged millions on property and luxury cars during a corruption scandal that collapsed the Mozambican economy.

The Maputo court judgment found that Guebuza used Pam Golding and Jouberts Attorneys to evade the Mozambican financial system, where his transactions may have...