Gangster State

construct their own houses.^21
Like Matseke, Seoe is also linked to Magashule and his daughter
Thoko through business dealings. Magashule was once a director in
Sambal Investments, another of Seoe’s companies. And I identified at
least one property transaction between one of Thoko’s trusts and a
company owned by Seoe. This deal, incidentally, went down in Kestell.
Moreover, when I was working on an investigative piece for News 24 in
2017 , I found CCTV footage showing Magashule, Thoko and Seoe,
along with some others, inspecting a Shell fuel station in QwaQwa.
Thoko later scored this property in a dodgy deal involving the FDC, the
entity chaired by fellow RDP contractor Hantsi Matseke.^22
One of the FSHS insiders I spoke to said the department deliberately
excluded Seoe’s companies from the court application. ‘He got advance
payments and his two projects were never finished, but he didn’t get
sued due to his close proximity to Magashule and Mokhesi,’ said this
source.
Peet Pieterse, meanwhile, denied that Open Water had overlooked
companies owned by Matseke and Seoe. Robs Investment Holdings
and Friedshelf 863 featured in the Open Water report, he insisted.
However, I had asked him about Robs Bricks, not Robs Investment
Holdings, seeing as the prior company had received the strangely
round figure of exactly R 7 million for materials. Pieterse did not
indicate whether this entity featured in the Open Water report.
I asked Pieterse why some of the entities included in the Open Water
report had apparently been excluded from the FSHS’s legal
proceedings against contractors and materials suppliers. He said Open
Water did not have a say in determining who the FSHS ended up suing.
‘It may be that the entities did fulfil their obligations in terms of their