The Hawks swooped and arrested the man who occasionally pays the Luthuli House salaries on month-end, a day after the tender tycoon, Edwin Sodi, was defending himself at the State Capture inquiry, explaining a slew of payments to politicians over six years. The multimillion-rand transfers include references to ministers, deputy ministers, and the ANC.

Michael Avery caught up with investigative journalist. Pieter-Louis Myburgh, the author of Gangster State, a book on state capture that detailed Sodi’s links to the ANC’s Secretary General Ace Magashula and others.