Overview
- SAPS dismissed Brigadier Rachel Matjeng with immediate effect on 30 June 2026 after an internal disciplinary process found her guilty of multiple counts of misconduct.
- The inquiry sustained charges including accepting gratification, money laundering, dishonesty, improperly advising a service provider, and providing a list of SAPS members for alleged financial gain.
- Madlanga commission evidence cited a financial trail and messages linking Matjeng to Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala, including a R300,000 payment to an account number Matjeng admitted she supplied.
- Matjeng has maintained the relationship with Matlala was romantic and that gifts and payments were personal rather than bribes, but the disciplinary finding and commission documents contradicted that account.
- Acting National Commissioner Puleng Dimpane said the dismissal affirms SAPS’s anti‑corruption stance, the Medicare24 contract controversy remains under inquiry, and Matlala is currently detained pending further legal processes.