Mashatile Unmasked - an investigation by News24. Grpahic by Rudi Louw.
Bridgman Sithole, one of Deputy President Paul Mashatile's oldest and closest friends, is a director of a company set to make considerable profits over the next two decades from a major multibillion-rand energy contract from the government. Another associate, Robinson Ramaite, whose companies have benefitted from Gauteng government contracts in the past, could similarly pocket millions from a mega housing project east of Pretoria.
Sithole is considered one of Mashatile's closest friends and is chairperson of the board of the Manzi Mashatile Foundation, named after the deputy president's wife and established after her death.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.