By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission spent Tuesday morning pressing Witness F on a sprawling web of WhatsApp communications involving Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, tenderpreneur Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala, and a WhatsApp account saved under the name of late Deputy President David “DD” Mabuza.
Commissioners raised concerns that the witness may have acted as an intermediary in questionable exchanges involving wildlife deliveries, police case information and potential arms dealing.
Evidence leader and senior counsel Matthew Chaskalson began by putting it to Witness F that Sibiya had sent him his private residential address during an earlier interaction.
The witness replied simply: “I’m here at the gate”.
Turning to messages from 4 March 2024, Chaskalson confronted him with a contact card he had sent to Matlala containing Sibiya’s phone number.
“Did you introduce Cat Matlala to General Sibiya?” Chaskalson asked, warning that he could invoke the privilege against self-incrimination.
“No,” the witness
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