North Gauteng High Court detail how he allegedly paid an official of
the Construction Industry Development Board R 6 000 to get a higher
CIDB grading in 2007. A higher grading would have allowed Khoba’s
companies to bid for more lucrative government tenders, such as the
ones he clinched in the Free State.^27
Mokgadi’s company, E’tsho Civils, is one of the private firms the
FSHS appointed to draw up a report following the R 1 -billion debacle in
2010. But it has been doing well on the construction side of things too.
Between 2011 and 2017 , E’tsho Civils netted a cool R 150 million in
revenue from the department, the HSS shows.
A few of my sources told me that Mokgadi and Magashule ‘travel the
world together’. I found some evidence of this in the IgoFiles, the
leaked documents I unpack in Part VII. A document from the premier’s
office shows that in early 2014 Mokgadi flew to Cuba with Magashule.
There is overwhelming evidence that a large slice of the pie in the Free
State housing department’s big splurge was gobbled up by contractors
who either had tangible links to Magashule or were said to be close to
him. In fact, R 250 million was channelled to ten such companies in the
two years between 2010 and 2012 alone. This included large payments
to the likes of Blacky Seoe (a former business partner), Hantsi Matseke
(a close friend from Parys) and Moreki Moroka (wife of a long-time
lawyer pal).
But this was just the start of a process that would eventually see a
mountain of money shift to people in Magashule’s inner circle. These
contractors, along with a few others who got in on the action only after
the R 1 -billion splurge, altogether received a staggering R 2 billion in
revenue from the FSHS during the nine years of Magashule’s reign as