Overview
- Evidence leaders disclosed two previously unreported 2024 transfers totalling about R2.12 million from a company linked to Suliman Carrim into Medicare24, a firm associated with Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala.
- A heated dispute over late document disclosure halted proceedings, and the chair set Carrim’s return to the stand for 16 April 2026 as the commission reset its timetable and extended its deadlines to 31 August with a second interim report due 29 May.
- Carrim acknowledged paying R500,000 to Hangwani Maumela at Matlala’s request and testified that he complied because he felt pressured and “scared.”
- The commission is examining whether flows connected to Medicare24 and the 2024 SAPS contract qualify as proceeds of crime that could trigger money‑laundering charges under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.
- Separate evidence presented included Zimbali Estate access codes sent by Maumela to Matlala for forwarding to then police minister Bheki Cele, which Carrim said he knew nothing about.