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expected role in the whole affair, summarising the joint-venture agreement between their companies as follows: ‘Blackhead [Consu ...

phase. All of this would be undertaken on a ‘risk basis’, meaning the FSHS would not need to pay a cent. ‘Diamond Hill/Blackhead ...

the contract price.^13 What this means is that, without a bidding process, the transport department now cannot appoint company X ...

coincidentally, also played a key role in the transferral of Shantan Reddy’s R 60 -million Free State IT contract to the nationa ...

handling of hazardous material, removal and disposal of asbestos- contaminated rubble and replacement with SABS approved materia ...

concern​ing when companies submit unsolicited requests for work to government. This is exactly what Mpambani and Sodi did when t ...

Matlakala as being ‘very close’ to Mokhesi and Magashule. The FSHS said there was nothing sinister about the fact that Mokhesi a ...

clearly equal partners in a joint venture. What’s more, the joint venture’s fees from the FSHS would be paid into a bank account ...

the R 255 -million asbestos auditing contract and subsequently launched court proceedings to halt what it viewed as a flagrant h ...

for this asbestos thing we were now hearing about,’ a current FSHS staffer told me. ‘We asked the HOD where we were going to get ...

22 A blueprint for bribes One of the most damning documents in the IgoFiles is an innocuous- looking Excel spreadsheet titled ‘F ...

worth R 51 million. The spreadsheet, on face value, provides rare insight into how corrupt government deals involving millions o ...

culture and recreation. My source explained that Leeto maintained close ties with Mpambani after her tenure as mayor, and that s ...

asbestos saga, and that ‘JT’ was most likely retired soccer star Jimmy Tau. I asked this person how Tau had got involved. Appare ...

‘consolidated payment’ in bank records for Blackhead–Diamond Hill’s joint FNB account, meaning it is the sum of several payments ...

venture’s FNB account to an account held by 605 Consulting Solutions, the company he had registered earlier that year. The next ...

division. At the time, FSHS HOD Tim Mokhesi was a Centlec board member. Other board members included Kenosi Moroka and Blacky Se ...

Magashule’s former business partner and one of his closest associates. A former member of Magashule’s provincial cabinet also po ...

23 Havana nights A bagman is a person who collects or distributes illicitly gained money, such as bribes to public officials. Ig ...

distinguished events, including the premier’s State of the Province addresses. But the devil lay in the finer detail. Mpambani’s ...