supporting my source’s theory that Leeto and ‘MEC’ are one and the
same. Leeto denied that she and her husband attended the SAMAs or
that they stayed in The Palace hotel. Her spokesperson said it was a
‘blatant lie to tarnish her name’.
Not long after the third instalment was paid, Magashule showed his
hand.
Shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday 10 April, Mpambani withdrew R 300
000 from 605 Consulting’s FNB account at one of the bank’s branches
in Rivonia. A few days before, he had transferred R 7 million of the
third FSHS instalment to the 605 Consulting account in two tranches,
marking the payments as ‘engineering services’. Loaded with cash,
Mpambani once again drove to Bloemfontein, where he booked himself
into a local guesthouse. At just after 7 p.m. that evening, he received an
email from one of Magashule’s staffers. ‘See below bank details. I just
don’t have details for Unisa. Will forward as soon as I get them,’
Ipeleng Morake, an employee in the premier’s office, wrote from her
private Gmail account.
The ‘below bank details’ were contained in an email that had been
sent to her earlier that day by Moroadi Cholota, Magashule’s personal
assistant. Cholota had also used a private Gmail account, but her email
to Morake included her job title and contact details at the Free State
Office of the Premier. The forwarded email included the bank details
for the University of the Free State (UFS), North-West University
(NWU) and the Central University of Technology (CUT). Mpambani
was instructed to reference certain student numbers when he made the
payments. These details must have been discussed with him elsewhere,
as the student numbers were not included in Morake’s email.
The following morning, after creating payment links to ‘UFS’, ‘NWU’
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