2013.^24 Incidentally, Seoe has also done a stint as a Centlec director.^25
Moreki Moroka seemingly hit the jackpot when Magashule became
premier in 2009. Mob Business pocketed more than R 50 million in
revenue from the FSHS between 2009 and 2018 , according to the HSS.
This included a payment of just over R 5 million in 2010 / 11 to build
houses in Bloemfontein. In that same year, Moreki and Mosidi
Motsemme, the mother of two of Magashule’s children, bought
properties within walking distance of each other in the same upmarket
residential estate on the outskirts of Bloemfontein. Motsemme is
known in Free State ANC circles as Magashule’s ‘Bloemfontein wife’.
Moroka denied that her business’s successes could be attributed to
perceived political connections. ‘The libellous disinformation that seeks
to link the operations of Mob Business to the tenure of Mr Magashule
as the Premier of the Free State Province are, to say the least,
preposterous and malicious,’ said her lawyers.
According to the FSHS’s 2013 progress report, Mob Business left
behind 100 unfinished houses in Bloemfontein. ‘Contractor not on site
for four months,’ reads the report. ‘Recommend to terminate.’^26
Although Mob Business was listed as a respondent in the FSHS court
bid, it was not among the companies against which the department
instituted action proceedings to recover money.
Moreki Moroka insisted that her company did finish all its houses in
Bloemfontein. ‘As further testimony to [the] absence of
malperformance, the Department duly paid the retention fee to our
client, which would not be paid in the event [that] there was defective
performance present,’ claimed her lawyers.
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