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6. Ibid.
7. Sibusiso Ngalwa, ‘Line-up of ANC’s would-be kingmakers’, IOL, 28 October 2007, available at https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/line-up-of-ancs-would-be-kingmakers
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8. Kingdom Mabuza, ‘ANC power struggle threatens premier’, Sowetan, 22 September 2011, available at https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011-09-22-anc-power-struggle
-threatens-premier/ (last accessed 11 December 2018).
9. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
10. Ibid.
11. Bloemfontein High Court, case number 5942/2017, Tumelo John Mokoena and Others v Elias Magashule and Others.
12. Kingdom Mabuza, ‘Premier assaulted us’, Sowetan, 24 March 2011, available at https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011-03-24-premier-assaulted-us-/ (last accessed 11 December 2018).
13. ‘Ace plot revealed’, The Weekly, 11 May 2012, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?
p=6121 (last accessed 11 December 2018).
14. Mabuza, ‘Premier assaulted us’.
15. ‘Ace plot revealed’.
16. ‘ANC leadership battle looms’, The Weekly, 25 November 2011, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=924 (last accessed 11 December 2018).
17. Charles Molele, ‘Faction aims to unseat Magashule’, Mail & Guardian, 26 April 2012, available at https://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-26-faction-aims-to-unseat-magashule (last accessed 11 December 2018).
18. George Matlala, ‘ANC’s Besani says he was undermined’, Sunday Independent, 5
March 2012, available at https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/ancs-besani-says -
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19. Molele, ‘Faction aims to unseat Magashule’.
20. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
21. Ibid.
22. Matuma Letsoalo, ‘Magashule defies ANC resolution and endorses Zuma’, Mail &
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23. SABC Digital News, ‘Free State re-elects Magashule as ANC chair’, 22 June 2012, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtX5pYO4og (last accessed 11
December 2018).
24. Charles Molele, ‘Ace Magashule accused of taking revenge’, Mail & Guardian, 24
August 2012.
25. ‘Terror campaign unmasked’, The Weekly, 4 May 2012, available at http://theweekly.co .za/?p=5871 (last accessed 11 December 2018).
26. Ramakatsa and Others v Magashule and Others, Free State High Court, case no.
3453/2012, judgment delivered on 26 October 2012, available at http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAFSHC/2012/207.html (last accessed 11 December 2018).
27. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Niren Tolsi, ‘Free State ANC PEC barred from voting at Mangaung’, Mail &
Guardian, 15 December 2012, available at https://mg.co.za/article/2012-12-15-free -
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34. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
35. Tolsi, ‘Free State ANC PEC barred from voting at Mangaung’.
36. Matuma Letsoalo and Niren Tolsi, ‘Rigged: Fake members boost Jacob Zuma’, Mail
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38. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
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44. Mpho Ramakatsa and Others v Elias [Ace] Magashule and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa, case CCT 109/12, judgment delivered on 14 December 2012, reasons on 18 December 2012.
45. ‘Ramakatsa faces ANC expulsion’.
46. Khalane, ‘ANC gaan teen afvalliges optree’.
47. Ntokozo Sindane, ‘Malema announces interim leadership of EFF’, Public News Hub, 12 July 2013, available at http://www.publicnewshub.com/malema-announces-interim -leadership-of-eff/ (last accessed 11 December 2018).
CHAPTER 12: FOURTH ESTATE
CAPTURE
1. National Treasury report, ‘Investigation into the appointment of Letlaka Media Services by the department of the Free State Premier’, 2013.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. ‘Exclusive: Report condemns Free State government tenders’, eNCA, 12 February 2014, available at https://www.enca.com/southafrica/damning-report-business -usual-letlaka (last accessed 14 January 2019).
6. National Treasury report, ‘Investigation into the appointment of Letlaka Media Services by the department of the Free State Premier’, 2013.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Selloane Khalane, ‘LUR beweer eienaar van koerante wou hom omkoop’, Volksblad, 28 October 2013.
10. ‘Exclusive: Report condemns Free State government tenders’.
11. ‘EL Magashule Draft Response [to] Questions for Written Reply’, Free State Provincial Legislature, 30 September 2015.
12. ‘Letlaka Media and Communications vs. Volksblad’, ruling by the Press Ombud, 13
/>
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13. Media statement, ‘Free State provincial government integrated website project’, 5
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14. Marietjie Gericke, ‘Ace gee R95 miljoen aan “vrugtelose projek”’, Volksblad, 8
November 2017.
15. Faranaaz Parker and Nickolaus Bauer, ‘Tender process trashed by R48m Free State website bid’, Mail & Guardian, 7 March 2013, available at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-07-tender-process-trashed-by-r48m-free-state-website-bid (last accessed 14 January 2019).
16. ‘Exclusive: Report condemns Free State government tenders’.
17. Mabuza, ‘Premier assaulted us’, Sowetan, 24 March 2011.
18. ‘Ace plot revealed’, The Weekly, 11 May 2012.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. ‘Attack on The Weekly shows Free State Times is becoming more desperate daily’, The Weekly, 25 November 2011, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=1038 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
23. Wendy Jasson da Costa, ‘“Zuma assassination plot is serious”’, IOL, 16 May 2007, available at https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/zuma-assassination-plot-is-serious
-353164 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
24. ‘Inside regime change war room’, The Weekly, 30 March 2012, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=4618 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. ‘Terror campaign unmasked’, The Weekly, 4 May 2012, available at http://theweekly
.co.za/?p=5871 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
28. Steve Nale, ‘ Free State Times perpetuates a sinister agenda that projects Magashule as corrupt’, Letters to the Editor, The Weekly, 18 November 2011, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=787 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
29. Tiisetso Makhele, ‘Open letter to Ace Magashule’, The Weekly, 6 March 2015, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=12539 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
30. Sidwell Guduka, ‘Premier gets new spokesperson’, Express, 2 December 2015, available at https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Local/Express-News/premier-gets-new -spokesperson-20151201 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
31. Gericke, ‘Ace gee R95 miljoen aan “vrugtelose projek”’.
32. ‘Volksblad vs. The Weekly’, ruling by the Press Ombud, 13 December 2017, available at https://presscouncil.org.za/Ruling/View/volksblad-vs-theweekly-4214 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Nale, ‘ Free State Times perpetuates a sinister agenda that projects Magashule as corrupt’.
36. Thabo Rapoho, ‘We must reject yellow journalism’, Letter to the Editor, The Weekly, 4 May 2012, available at http://theweekly.co.za/?p=6084 (last accessed 14 January 2019).
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38. Sally Evans and Thabang Matjama, ‘Press buyout a victory for Magashule’, Mail &
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39. As seen on the Free State Times’s Facebook page.
40. ‘Court orders The New Age to pay’, Business Day, 18 March 2011.
CHAPTER 13: TEA WITH ATUL
1. Mondli Makhanya, ‘Sunset for the ANC Premier League’, News24, 11 March 2018, available at https://www.news24.com/Columnists/Mondli-Makhanya/sunset-for-the -
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2. Sam Mkokeli, ‘Zuma increasingly relying on backing of rural “premier league”’, Mail
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3. See https://wazimap.co.za/profiles/province-FS-free-state/ (last accessed 23 October 2018).
4. Owen Kock, ‘New town to rise next to airport’, Bloemfontein Courant, 24 April 2013, availble at https://www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za/new-town-to-rise-next-to-airport/ (last accessed 24 October 2018).
5. ‘#GuptaLeaks: How Multichoice paid the Guptas millions’, News24, 24 November 2017, available at https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/guptaleaks-how-multichoice -paid-the-guptas-millions-20171124 (last accessed 24 October 2018).
6. ‘ANC announces its mayoral candidates for 2016 local elections’, Mail & Guardian, 19 June 2016, available at https://mg.co.za/article/2016-06-19-anc-announces-its -
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7. Mr Thabo Moses Manyoni, People’s Assembly profile, available at https://www.pa.org.za/person/thabo-manyoni/ (last accessed 24 October 2018).
8. Setume Stone, ‘Guptas offered me R2m a month for 10 years’, City Press, 21 October 2018.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. SAARF AMPS July 2011–June 2012, Average issue readership of newspapers and magazines, available at http://saarf.co.za/amps-readership/2012/AMPS%20JUNE%2012-%20SUMMARY.pdf (last accessed 25
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12. Sarah Evans and Lionel Faull, ‘New Age: Dawn of advertising riches with no circulation figures’, Mail & Guardian, 25 January 2013, available at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-01-25-00-new-age-dawn-of-advertising-riches-with-no-circulation -figures/ (last accessed 25 October 2018).
13. Sapa, ‘New Age garners government ads’, Mail & Guardian, 23 September 2010, available at https://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-09-23-new-age-garners-government -ads (last accessed 25 October 2018).
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15. amaBhungane, ‘Gupta-owned newspaper in line of fire of new Nielsen report’, Daily Maverick, 15 February 2017, available at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017
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16. Jeanette Chabalala, ‘#StateCaptureInquiry: Gupta-owned media houses bagged R260m from govt, with Free State dishing out the most’, News24, 10 September 2018, available at https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/statecaptureinquiry-gupta -
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17. Poloko Tau, ‘Motsoaledi: Mediosa served as an ATM card for the Guptas’, City Press, 2 March 2018, available at https://city-press.news24.com/News/motsoaledi-mediosa -served-as-an-atm-card-for-the-guptas-20180302 (last accessed 25 October 2018).
18. Gosebo Mathope, ‘Free State health department pays Gupta-linked Mediosa R25m’, Citizen, 5 March 2018, available at https://citizen.co.za/news/1845045/free-state-health-department-paid-gupta-linked-mediosa-r25m/ (last accessed 25 October 2018).
CHAPTER 14: A FAMILY OF FIXERS
1. Budget vote speech for Free State Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, tabled by MEC M.J. Zwane, 22 March 2012.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. ‘Allegations of maladministration against the Free State Department of Agriculture –
Vrede Integrated Dairy Project’, Public Protector Report No. 31 of 2017/18, available at http://www.pprotect.org/sites/default/files/legislation_report/Vrede%20Report.pdf (last accessed 18 February 2019).
6. Vicus Burger, ‘Guptas se VS-bande ontbloot’, Netwerk24, 22
May 2013, https://www.netwerk24.com/Nuus/Guptas-se-VS-bande-ontbloot-20130522 (last accessed 18 February 2019).
7. ‘Intended beneficiaries of Gupta-linked farm speak out’, eNCA, 22 January 2018, available at https://www.enca.com/southafrica/gupta-linked-farm-saga-beneficiaries -
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8. Lindi van Rooyen, ‘MPO appalled by failed Vrede dairy project’, Farmer’s Weekly, 20 February 2014, available at https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/agri-news/southafrica/mpo-appalled-by-failed-vrede-dairy-project/ (last accessed 18
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9. amaBhungane and Daily Maverick’s Scorpio, ‘#GuptaLeaks: The Dubai laundromat –
how millions milked from the Free State government paid for Sun City wedding’, News24, 30 June 2017, available at
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10. Charles Smith, ‘Onthul: Omvang van Guptas se plundering by Vrede’, Volksblad, 13
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11. Karyn Maughan, ‘NPA provisionally withdraws Estina case’, Business Day, 4
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12. Pieter-Louis Myburgh, ‘Exclusive: Gupta associate “advised” Magashule on Vrede dairy project – court papers’, News24, 12 July 2018, available at https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/exclusive-gupta-associate-advised-magashule-on-vrede-dairy -project-court-papers-20180712 (last accessed 18 February 2019).
13. Siviwe Feketha, ‘Magashule: My son is not involved in Vrede dairy farm project’, IOL, 22 January 2018, available at https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/magashule-my-son -is-not-involved-in-vrede-dairy-farm-project-12857580 (last accessed 18 February 2019); ‘Magashule: No secret my son works for Guptas’, News24, 22 January 2018, https://www.news24.com/Video/SouthAfrica/News/magashule-no-secret-my-son -
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14. Jan Gerber, ‘#GuptaEmails: Guptas asked to buy airtime for ANC election agents’, News24, 2 June 2017, available at
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