BOOK REVIEW: The anatomy of capture and corruption in King Ace's world | PieterDuToit
Trawling through company reports and directors' listings, meeting dodgy characters in dangerous locations and leeching bank statements and deposit slips whilst trying to link all of this with the subject matter takes a lot of patience, girded loins and clarity of thought.
. Myburgh, a former journalist at Rapport and News24 and now with Daily Maverick, spent more than a year researching the empire that Magashule built in the Free State before being elevated to arguably the second most powerful position in the ANC, that of secretary general.is a meticulous and thorough examination of Magashule's world in which Myburgh combines documentary evidence with first-person accounts of the former Free State premier's networks, confidantes and arrangements.
You won't find Magashule's fingerprints on an EFT transfer or a chain of WhatsApp messages demanding 10% from a tender that was just issued. But you will find a network of acolytes and hangers-on – 'blessees', even – who moved in Magashule's orbit and who benefitted from provincial contracts. It is this crowd that, according to Myburgh's book, did the dirty work for"Mr Ten Percent" .
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