Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture

by Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Kickbacks due to him from government contracts would be paid in cash, they all alleged, ensuring that any financial links to dodgy contractors were kept to a minimum.

past. In April 2018, while I was still working at News24, I looked into a R255-million ‘asbestos audit’ contract awarded by the Free State’s Department of Human Settlements. I linked the contract to Igo Mpambani, a high-flying tender mogul who had been gunned down in Sandton in 2017.2