‘He said I must protect him’: Matlala drops Sibiya bombshell at Madlanga Commission

PRETORIA – Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala has accused former police deputy national commissioner for crime detection Shadrack Sibiya of coercing him to lie to Parliament.

Testifying before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Monday, Matlala alleged that Sibiya did this through his lawyer

He claimed that Advocate Bronwynne Forbay would call Sibiya during breaks at the Ad Hoc Committee sittings and hand Matlala the phone.

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He further told the commission that his wife, Tsakane Matlala, told him that Sibiya repeatedly contacted her from a private number, threatening that Matlala should not reveal anything about him at the Ad Hoc Committee.

Some of those threats, he said, were directed at his life and the safety of his family.

“From the very beginning that I had started to interact with Sibiya, I saved Sibiya on my phone as ‘Sotoba’. I deleted all my communications with Sibiya every time we had telephonic conversations after he advised me to do so.

“He said to me that I need to protect him at all costs, and he did not want anybody to know that I was in communication with him,” Matlala testified.