Power FM, Wednesday afternoon

Murder accused Vusimuzi Matlala has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that Investigating Directorate Against Corruption Investigators exaggerated details of alleged payments made to former police minister Bheki Cele in his Section 204 affidavit. The Section 204 statement was part of a proposed plea agreement with IDAC that collapsed after McCalla rejected a court-proposed sentence of 12 years' imprisonment. Matlala early admitted that.

That while he did give money to Drele, the figures and specific history documented in the section 204 statement were exaggerated by investigators to build a corruption case against Trele. Matlala also testified that he first met Cele in December 2024 at the funeral of late taxi boss Jotham Seabee, but ADEC investigators instructed him to fabricate a longer history of his relationship with the former minister.

But now, this guy is from IDEC. So they said, no, this won't be sufficient. You need to create a history as if you used to see him with Mr. Missibi before. That's why you even so comfortable going to him because of even though you never spoke, but we you have met before, so there must be a history. So that's why they've ended up putting this paragraph here. They say to you why they wanted to create a history.

So what I said that is 100 paragraphs, but I did give Kelly money, but that money was exaggerated. And then, because now they wanted to charge him with corruption. And the founder and executive director of SA Spaza, Becky Twala, says municipal delays in issuing trading licenses are preventing some Spaza shop owners from accessing government funding. Government has disposed 41.6 million rand of the allocated 100 million, meant to help increase the population.