Investigations have revealed that security boss and Tembisa Hospital tenderpreneur, Vusimuzi Matlala, had bagged himself a R360m health services contract from SAPS. – MedicalBrief
(8 Jan 2025). Matlala’s home and office were recently raided by police, apparently in connection with a kidnapping.
News24 reported that a company called Medicare 24 Tswane District – of which Matlala is the sole director – was awarded the lucrative three-year deal in June last year to render “health risk management” services.
“Matlala’s new business boom came while he was a central figure in a nearly R3bn Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe of dubious Tembisa Hospital contracts, in parallel with a sweeping Hawks fraud and corruption investigation.
“Through two little-known entities he steers, Black AK Trading and Suppliers and Cor Kabeng Trading and Suppliers, Matlala was connected to syndicate activity at the hospital.”