By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission resumed on Wednesday with Witness F facing sustained questioning over his role as an intermediary between Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, businessman Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, and Gauteng Organised Crime boss Richard Shibiri.
The session illuminated a pattern of private meetings, message exchanges, and the circulation of official police documents that sharply contradict the limited-contact narrative advanced by Sibiya in earlier testimony.
Sibiya previously told the commission that he had met Matlala “five times or fewer”, emphasising that their engagement related only to administrative assistance around a lease confirmation for Matlala’s later-invalidated R360-million police health-services tender.
He insisted their relationship was “very limited” and that there was no ongoing personal association.
“I would receive messages from both of them looking for one another, but I did not know the finer details of their relationship,” Witness F said.
But Witness F’s WhatsApp records suggest a
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