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finally lodged a legal bid at the Bloemfontein High Court in January 2017 for its agreement with Emendo to be declared void.^8 T ...

partner. In this sense, the Vogelfontein saga resembled the Shell fuel station debacle. In both instances, the premier was at th ...

19 Paved with gold No chronicle of Ace Magashule’s contentious career as premier of the Free State would be complete without men ...

If Treasury’s intervention ensured cleaner governance at the department, it was temporary. By the 2017 / 18 financial year, the ...

committee. The supply chain manager then ratifies the decision and ensures the department makes prepayments to the contractors.’ ...

that Msibi had somehow amassed properties worth a staggering R 25 million before his untimely death.^8 The properties were mostl ...

small contracts to help them gain experience. The contracts were mostly for road main​tenance, grass cutting and related project ...

Botlokwa Holdings, owned by Thoko Malembe; ME Construction, owned by Ezekiel Magashule, the then premier’s younger brother; MDBS ...

‘We hereby wish to advise you that the Department of Police, Roads and Transport has followed due processes in terms of Supply C ...

PART VII THE IGOFILES ...

20 Enter Igo Long before he became involved in Ace Magashule’s circle, Phikolomzi Ignatius Mpambani was something of a local her ...

entertainers. ‘The concept was created to provide upwardly mobile and working class individuals with the opportunity to enjoy th ...

hang​ing over her head since her time as mayor. She was charged for allegedly accepting bribes related to tenders awarded by the ...

My sources also said that Mogoera had a falling-out with Magashule not long after the latter came to power. ‘There was an exodus ...

to an end in around 2012. Mpambani, now back in Magashule’s favour, needed new entities through which he could continue to do bu ...

21 Plunder plot Ace Magashule and six of his closest associates from the Free State landed in Havana, Cuba, just before 1 p.m. o ...

The then MEC for human settlements, Olly Mlamleli, was also part of the delegation. She had come to Cuba to interview and recrui ...

In 2013 , the national Department of Human Settlements advertised a bid for the appointment of a panel of companies to assist th ...

time having to advertise a fresh tender. The bid process that led to Blackhead’s appointment was questionable from the start. Wh ...

in Limpopo. Sodi and Mokonyane were ‘allegedly close friends’, the news​paper reported.^10 In 2017 , the auditor-general classif ...