Profile summary
Mpho Parks Franklyn Tauis listed as part of South Africa's national executive in the role of Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition. This profile is prepared for the Integrity Index evidence-review workflow. The score below is calculated only from source-linked evidence items recorded after the current source-category review.
Integrity Risk Score
15
Risk level: Low. Evidence items recorded in current evidence table.
Profile status
- Party
- ANC
- Inclusion source
- Parliament Ministers page
- Conviction status
- No record in current evidence table
- Criminal charge status
- No record in current evidence table
- Official investigation status
- No record in current evidence table
- Ethics finding status
- No record in current evidence table
- Credible media allegation status
- Recorded
- Conflict or procurement concern
- No record in current evidence table
- Cleared or dismissed matters
- Recorded
- Date last reviewed
- 25 June 2026
Scoring breakdown
Criminal conviction
Automatic 100
No record in current evidence table
Formal criminal charges currently pending
+50
No record in current evidence table
Named adversely in official finding or official report
+35
No record in current evidence table
Official investigation
+25
No record in current evidence table
Parliamentary ethics or conflict-of-interest matter
+20
No record in current evidence table
Repeated credible media allegations
+10 to +15
Recorded
Serious conflict-of-interest or procurement concern
+10
No record in current evidence table
Cleared, withdrawn, disproven, corrected or dismissed matter
Context only / 0
Recorded
Evidence table
| Date | Category | Status | Summary | Source | Confidence | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2026 | Inclusion source | Verified for listing | Listed as an executive officeholder for the purpose of building the Executive page. | Parliament Ministers page | High | 0 |
| 2021-01-12 | Credible allegation | Reported SAPS Serious Commercial Crime investigation | ActionSA reported that SAPS had confirmed a 2018 criminal case involving Geoff Makhubo and Parks Tau was being investigated by the Serious Commercial Crime division. Because the currently linked source is an advocacy statement rather than a primary SAPS record, this is scored cautiously as a credible allegation, not as a charge, conviction or official finding. | ActionSA statement on Regiments-related case | Medium | +15 |
| 2018-12-10 | Credible allegation | Regiments/Makhubo allegation background | amaBhungane reported on Regiments-linked payments and documents concerning Johannesburg contracts and ANC-linked actors. This is retained as supporting background for the same Regiments-related matter and is not double counted. | amaBhungane Regiments investigation background | Medium | 0 |
| 2013-07-31 | Cleared or contextualised matter | Earlier City of Johannesburg conflict matter cleared | The City of Johannesburg published a statement saying Tau had been cleared in an earlier, separate tender/conflict allegation involving a consortium in which his wife held an interest. This is retained as context and is not scored. | City of Johannesburg clearance statement | High | 0 |
Methodology note
Integrity Index uses a risk-score model where higher scores indicate higher publicly documented integrity risk. Scores are calculated from structured evidence categories, including convictions, formal charges, official findings, official investigations, ethics matters, credible allegations, serious conflict-of-interest or procurement concerns, and contextual cleared or dismissed matters. Cleared or contextualised matters do not create negative points. No score is published until the relevant evidence item is linked to a verifiable public source and reviewed.
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