Gangster State

challenge we have currently is that your company is not on our BAS [Basic Accounting System],’ read the email. ‘In order for [th ...

Bloemfontein, according to his diary. The premier’s schedule at that time was dominated by party-political events. The previous ...

may have been about cash. It was at 11 : 02 that day that Mpambani transferred the R 1. 1 million ‘loan’ from Diamond Hill to 60 ...

28 ‘Ace’s girls’ In late June and early July 2017 , Igo Mpambani’s friends, family and business associates attended memorial ser ...

Holdings, the company owned by Magashule’s daughter Thoko Malembe. When I later got hold of Sothoane on the phone, she told me t ...

municipality, and in early 2017 , he joined the FSHS, just before Kaykaysim became a subcontractor on projects for the departmen ...

documents reflect 605 Consulting’s financial dealings only up to and including October 2017. Nevertheless, the company concluded ...

update on the police’s investigation, a SAPS spokesperson told me the matter was being investigated by the Hawks. The Hawks then ...

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29 Nas(w)rec(k) Ace Magashule found himself in perhaps the most important battle of his long, conflict-ridden political career i ...

Becoming secretary-general therefore offered Magashule a chance to secure one of the party’s most powerful positions and, more i ...

the first weekend of December, but the applicants wanted to prohibit the gathering from taking place. They argued that a series ...

that the meeting was never formally quorate, nominations were accepted. Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was nominated as a candidate, ...

members from attending meetings. For example, branches in the eastern Free State’s Thabo Mofutsanyana region were subjected to ‘ ...

region. ‘Similarly, in wards 6 , 8 , 13 and 22 , if members were suspected of belonging to the “CR 17 ” faction or indicated so ...

there were 214 signatures on the register and that a quorum had therefore been reached. However, there were only approximately 8 ...

Magashule and his supporters needed the gathering to proceed in order to formalise the province’s support for the Dlamini-Zuma s ...

got routed at Nasrec, Magashule and his PEC pressed ahead with plans to convene a provincial conference, despite the High Court’ ...

tallied, and Magashule won by just twenty-four.^27 But the new secretary-general barely had time to soak up his success before t ...

at Luthuli House in early 2018 , after which the controversy over the uncounted votes died down.^35 But mere days after news bro ...