Gangster State

in Bloemfontein at the time, it is unlikely that the bus service would
have been for anything other than the manifesto launch.
In late July 2016 , with the local elections only days away, Mpambani
made his most direct financial contribution to the ruling party. He
funded this donation with the proceeds of the asbestos auditing
contract in a clear example of the ANC’s habit of funding itself with
money squeezed from state coffers through dodgy contracts. The little
scheme worked as follows: By 28 July, 605 Consulting still had a small
amount of money left over from the seventh FSHS instalment paid out
in April. That day, Mpambani transferred R 100 000 from the 605
Consulting account to his FNB Private Wealth cheque account,
marking it as ‘salary’. Just a few minutes later, he transferred this
entire ‘salary’ from his Private Wealth account to an unknown bank
account, flagging it as ‘party fundraising’. A subsequent SMS sending-
fee notification stated that the payment was for ‘ANC Fundraising’.