The Hawks are seeking to arrest five more people in connection with the Vrede dairy farm project, but will not name them, saying that doing so could compromise the investigation. Acting Hawks head Yolisa Matakata said on Friday that 13 suspects had been identified and eight had already appeared in the Bloemfontein regional court. She would not say whether the other five had not been arrested yet because they were politically connected. The charge sheet implicates Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane and ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. It says the dairy farm project, which enriched the politically connected Gupta family, was Zwane’s brainchild while he was MEC for agriculture in the Free State and Magashule was premier. Zwane and Magashule have not been charged.
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