Gangster State

alleged meetings between Shantan Reddy and Magashule. Two sources
with direct knowledge of the Reddy family’s business dealings, whom I
interviewed independently of one another, alleged that Magashule was
a regular visitor to Edison and Empire Technology’s offices in Sandton
throughout 2015. Both sources claimed that they had on several
occasions witnessed with their own eyes how Magashule had walked
out of the office building, and they were both able to recollect striking
details about these alleged visits.
At the time, Empire and Edison occupied the first floor of a building
near the Michelangelo Towers hotel at Sandton’s Nelson Mandela
Square. Edison only later moved to its current address on 5 th Street.
The Signature Hotel now occupies the building that housed their
former offices. One of my sources was able to provide me with a floor
plan for Edison and Empire’s old offices, including the exact location
of the offices of Shantan, Yuri Mohan and the fifteen-odd other
employees who worked with them in that building. This source showed
me in which office Magashule and Shantan usually met. He said he
could not remember exactly how many times Magashule came to
Empire and Edison’s offices, seeing as it had been a ‘regular
occurrence’. The source claimed Magashule and his driver frequently
left the building carrying large bags.
My second source corroborated the story about the bags. He claimed
he had bumped into Magashule at Empire’s Sandton offices on two
occasions in late 2015 , about a month apart. He showed me where
Magashule’s driver had parked the car in which they had arrived, near
the entrance to the basement parking on the northern side of Nelson
Mandela Square. ‘When they were done meeting with Shantan, Ace
and the driver would walk out of the building carrying large travel