When the Free State provincial government realised it was at risk of losing R1.3bn allocated to build thousands of low-cost houses in 2010, officials quickly devised a scheme to spend the money.
Chairperson of the state capture commission chief justice Raymond Zondo says the National Treasury would have suffered irreparable damage had it not been for the ANC conference in 2017 that elected Cyril Ramaphosa to take over from former president Jacob Zuma.