Pursuant to the 2004 general election, Tsopo was elected to her third term in the provincial legislature and was re-appointed to the Executive Council by Premier Beatrice Marshoff, who appointed her as MEC for Education. While she was in that position, her husband, Sandile, was prosecuted for defrauding her department, the Free State Department of Education. The fraud concerned a large contract for the distribution of school books over a three-year period from 2001 to 2004, when Tsopo had been MEC for Health. Sandile and two others were convicted of defrauding the Department of Education of more than R360,000. In January 2007, the Bloemfontein Regional Court sentenced him to serve four years' imprisonment. He was denied leave to appeal. Tsopo denied having knowledge of fraud.
