Gangster State

council activities and Operation Hlasela engagements. That evening,
Mpambani used the 605 Consulting bank card at a lodge in Three
Rivers, Vereeniging. The lodge is located about twenty-five kilometres
from Sasolburg. He spent just under R 5 000 at the establishment in
two payments. The following day, Mpambani travelled to Gauteng, as
evidenced by the fact that he withdrew money from the 605 Consulting
account at FNB’s Merchant Place branch in Sandton in the afternoon.
According to Magashule’s diary, he too was travelling to Gauteng that
day: ‘travel to JHB,’ reads the entry for Saturday 24 January.
And so it went. Each time Blackhead–Diamond Hill received money
from the FSHS, Mpambani’s movements matched those of Magashule.
This would continue for the next year and a half, until his death in June
2017.
On Sunday and Monday ( 25 and 26 January 2015 ), Magashule
attended a two-day ANC NEC lekgotla at the Saint George Hotel in
Pretoria. While the NEC gathering was under way, the Free State
Development Corporation’s company secretary, David Nkaiseng,
forwarded to Mpambani the ‘briefing documentation’ for the Free State
delegation’s upcoming visit to Cuba. The document bore the emblem of
the Office of the Premier.
On Tuesday 27 January, Mpambani printed a company resolution for
Diamond Hill at a print shop in Sandton. It read: ‘Directors’
contribution to the Free State Asbestos project will be paid to the
company of their choice.’ At 11 : 10 that morning, Magashule and his
six associates boarded South African Airways flight SA 222 at O.R.
Tambo International Airport, from where they flew to Cuba via São
Paulo, Brazil, and Bogotá, Colombia. That same evening, just before 7
p.m., Mpambani boarded an Air France flight that took him to Havana