this time from her official government email account. She included the
banking details for Pule Nkate, who is described by FS News Online as
the ‘Student Representative of South African [Medical] Students in
Cuba’.^2 Attached to the email was an invoice for tablet devices valued
at R 470 000. If Mpambani settled these bills, he did so either in cash
or from accounts that do not show up in the IgoFiles.
The FSHS paid a fourth instalment of R 15 million to the Blackhead–
Diamond Hill joint account on 4 June 2015. Mpambani handled this
payment in a now familiar manner. Half of the R 15 million was
transferred to Sodi’s Blackhead Consulting, while the rest was flushed
into the accounts of Diamond Hill and 605 Consulting in several
payments that ranged from R 900 000 to R 3 million and that were
labelled as ‘project management’ or ‘engineering services’ fees. From
his company accounts, Mpambani made payments to a range of other
parties for ‘consulting services’, ‘engineering services’ and ‘loans’.
They were mostly rounded figures of as much as R 1 million at a time.
Mpambani also sent emails during this period that provided insight
into his relationship with Magashule. On 8 June, a representative from
China U-Ton Holdings, a Chinese fibre-optics company with a listing
on the Hong Kong stock exchange, emailed Mpambani, Free State
Development Corporation CEO Ikhraam Osman and David Nkaiseng,
the FDC official who had sent Mpambani the details of Magashule’s
trip to Cuba. ‘I must say that it was my great pleasure to know you and
I fully enjoyed our meetings and dinner last week,’ wrote the China U-
Ton representative. ‘I have returned to China over the weekend and
would like to reiterate our interest in working with FDC ... to construct
a fibre optics network.’
Mpambani responded as follows: ‘We are excited of the opportunity to
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