Gangster State

distinguished events, including the premier’s State of the Province
addresses.
But the devil lay in the finer detail. Mpambani’s bank records allowed
me to build a detailed timeline of when he was spending his money,
and where. I compared this dataset to Magashule’s official diary. The
results were interesting, to say the least. At times, it looked like
Mpambani was literally following Magashule around the country.
Other documents from the IgoFiles and additional source accounts
confirmed that the young tenderpreneur was indeed spending a lot of
time with Magashule and even accompanying him on trips abroad.
A case in point is a trip to Cape Town in early January 2015 , between
the first payment of R 20 million from the FSHS to the Blackhead–
Diamond Hill joint venture in late December 2014 and the second
payment of R 31 million on 15 January 2015. On Wednesday 7
January, Magashule flew to Cape Town. According to his diary, he
attended an NEC meeting there, met with then social development
minister Bathabile Dlamini and enjoyed a ‘private lunch’ with
controversial tender mogul Vivian Reddy. That Saturday, 10 January,
Magashule attended the ANC’s 103 rd birthday celebration at the Cape
Town Stadium in Green Point before flying back to Bloemfontein the
following day.
Bank records from the IgoFiles show that Mpambani arrived in Cape
Town on the Friday before the ANC birthday bash. Using money from
the asbestos audit that he had transferred to the 605 Consulting
Solutions bank account, that weekend he splashed about R 5 000 on
booze at a liquor store in Green Point, around the corner from where
the ANC festivities were due to take place. He also swiped one of his
bank cards at various restaurants in the area.