By Des Erasmus and Lebone Rodah Mosima
Suspended Mpumalanga police commissioner Lieutenant-General Daphney Manamela alleged on Sunday that national police chief Fannie Masemola and retired Major-General Botsotso Moukangwe took a R5 million “payment” to block her return to office.
Speaking at a media briefing in Mbombela, Manamela said Moukangwe “allegedly made a confession” on 4 February 2025 that he and Masemola had been paid by businessman Bobby Mosiane Motaung to ensure she “does not return to work”.
She alleged the money changed hands in January 2025 in Montana, Pretoria, and said the aim was to stop the reopening of dockets related to the 2009 murder of former Mbombela speaker Jimmy Mohlala and Mbombela Stadium fraud and corruption cases.
Manamela said the alleged bribe was part of a pattern of interference in politically sensitive and high-profile investigations in Mpumalanga.
She alleged that dockets relating to the Mohlala matter and the stadium
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