Gangster State

asbestos saga, and that ‘JT’ was most likely retired soccer star Jimmy
Tau. I asked this person how Tau had got involved. Apparently, the
former Kaizer Chiefs player had represented Nomvula Mokonyane,
under whose reign as Gauteng premier Blackhead had first started
clinching major government contracts. This sounded a little far-fetched,
but I then remembered having seen something about a link between
Tau and Mokonyane before. In fact, it was EFF leader Julius Malema
who first claimed at a press conference in August 2016 that Tau was
one of the younger men with whom Mokonyane was allegedly
romantically involved.^1
The spreadsheet is compelling, but it does not prove that Magashule
and the others received their share of the asbestos auditing contract
loot. Luckily, further information and documents in the IgoFiles show
that Mpambani did indeed make payments in accordance with the
spreadsheet’s payment schedule. Bank records in the trove of
documents reveal that Mpambani channelled payments totalling
exactly R 19 983 427. 16 from the Blackhead–Diamond Hill joint FNB
account to several recipients on 23 December 2014. This was a day
after the FSHS made the first payment of R 20 million.
That exact amount, to the very last cent, appears in the spreadsheet
under the heading ‘first payment’. According to the spreadsheet, it was
the sum of ten separate payments that Mpambani had to make to third
parties after Blackhead–Diamond Hill received its first payment from
the FSHS. The document lists a payment of almost R 13. 3 million to
Mastertrade; R 1 million each to AM, TZ, TM and MEC; R 500 000 to
Diedricks; R 200 000 to OM; R 1 million to ‘others’; R 500 000 to
‘Martin’; and R 500 000 to Diamond Hill, Mpambani’s own company.
This all equalled exactly R 19 983 427. 16. This amount is captured as a