documents reflect 605 Consulting’s financial dealings only up to and
including October 2017. Nevertheless, the company concluded a very
interesting transaction that month. On 29 September, the FSHS
effected a smaller payment of just over R 2 million to 605 Consulting.
Over the following few days, Michelle Mpambani, or whoever
controlled the company’s bank account, made several payments to
third parties, including a neat payment of R 220 000 to Kaykaysim and
just under R 500 000 in two tranches to Ramtsilo Trading. This
company’s directors are Kekeletso and Kedibone Tsiloane, sisters in
their twenties who hail from Sasolburg. Unlike Sothoane, the Tsiloane
sisters have documented links to Magashule’s family. According to
company records, they are directors in a non-profit called Yetsang
Empowerment Bato. This entity’s registered address is in Parys, and
one of its other directors is Thato Magashule, the former premier’s son.
A source who was previously close to Ace Magashule claimed that he
once saw the Tsiloane sisters in Ace Magashule’s company at a
restaurant in Bloemfontein. ‘Those are Ace’s girls,’ he told me.
Kedibone, the older of the two, told me their company was ‘privileged’
to have been commissioned as a subcontractor to 605 Consulting
following the latter’s appointment by the FSHS to connect RDP houses
to sewer and water pipes in Sasolburg. When I asked to see proof of
the work Ramtsilo Trading had supposedly done, Kedibone referred
me to Michelle Mpambani, who did not respond to any of my queries.
Kedibone, who defended her company’s work for 605 Consulting,
remained mum when I queried her and her sister’s ties to Magashule’s
son.
Nearly two years have passed since Mpambani’s murder without
anyone having been brought to book. When I first tried to get an