Kaya 959, Wednesday afternoon

Claims Bheki Cele wanted to buy him property and Mayfair Ward Councillor outlines other issues related to substation explosion. Good afternoon, I'm Gatao Sohoto. Alleged underworld figure Vusimuzikat Matlala claims former police minister Bheki Cele wanted to buy him a 6 million rand retirement property in Trafalgar, KwaZulu-Natal. Matlala claims Trele wanted this inexpensive.

After he assisted him following the confiscation of firearms during a raid at his security company by the political killings task team. He further explained that this was to be a gesture after Trele arranged a meeting for him with KZN Provincial Commissioner Ntantam Kwonazi. Matala is testifying at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry about his alleged dealings with government officials and senior police officers. Matala further claims he handed Trele 300,000 random.

In cash at a Durban hotel as part of a previously agreed one million rand payment. Actually, even myself, I was not happy about it, but I just felt like this he will think that I'm ungrateful, and then I was appreciative to the fact that the harassment has stopped. But it did not also make sense to me that because the demands were even more than he at some point, he asked me to buy him a house in some place called, I don't forget that name.

Falga, somewhere in KZN. So he said he wants to retire in that house. A ward counselor says while sabotage and vandalism following the elections can't be ruled out, he attributes the explosion in the Mayfair substation to overloading on the grid. Speaking to Kaya News, Ricky Nair says population growth in the ward has increased pressure on the network. This comes as some residents are spending a fourth day without electricity.