The Big Five cartel

• Allegedly to be bought from a Czech supplier and resold in eSwatini.
• Chaskalson: “The Czech Republic has been told that this is a demonstration for the South African Police Service.”
• A related thread on active monitoring systems from Paris and Hamburg was valued at about R1.16 million.
• Interception capability is tightly held in South African law and judicially controlled.

A device described in evidence, not a person.

• Alleged to have applied SAPS stamps to the procurement paperwork.
• That paperwork is what made a private purchase read as a police one.
• His WhatsApp traffic with Tshwane's suspended CFO was separately led in April 2026.

Named on the record; no profile page yet.

• Named by Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo in September 2025 as an alleged Big Five leader.
• Named again on the Day 161 messages as a party to the alleged interception-device plan.
• His 6 December 2024 arrest at Sandhurst is itself a sustained subject of the inquiry.
• Faces separate, untested criminal charges; presumed innocent.

• Named on the Day 161 messages as a party to the alleged interception-device plan.
• Sent Msibi the contact details of Ekurhuleni's then city manager on 23 September 2023.

• Sent the details of an Ekurhuleni transport contract by Msibi on 26 April 2023.
• “Please give me until Tuesday, all will be well.”
• Confirmed in October 2023 that the submission had reached the bid evaluation committee.
• Also named in the Khan network evidence over a chartered flight.

Named on the record; no profile page yet.

• Her contact details were sent to Msibi on 23 September 2023; he called her two days later.
• The commissioners said they do not know what was said and cautioned against assuming anything.
• Commissioner Sandile Khumalo on the message about R1 million: “We have not established that the she is her.”
• She faces separate, untested charges in the Ekurhuleni matter and is presumed innocent.

Named on the record; no profile page yet.

• A joint venture with Transnational Coaches, tied to subsidised bus contracts, surfaced on Day 161.
• R1 million was paid into Tucofin, of which Msibi was a director; R700,000 went to Santaco.
• Chaskalson: the connection had not previously been identified by investigators.
• The commission resolved on 14 August 2026 to lay criminal charges over his non-appearance.

• The SIU identifies him as the central figure in an alleged R820 million procurement fraud at Tembisa Hospital.
• Matlala, Day 166: a joint venture from about 2015, roughly R1 million each, Gauteng health department quotations, ten percent each on the other's deals.
• Matlala says he introduced him to Msibi, over a Pagani Huayra that Maumela wanted to sell.
• He has never given evidence to this commission and has not answered any of it.

• Suspended Sergeant Fannie Nkosi told the commission he was one of a 'group of five' businessmen.
• On Day 169 he rejected it and said he was the network's target: two attempts on his life, in 2006 and August 2022.
• He named the late Jotham Msibi as the source of the threat, and succeeded him at the head of the taxi body.
• Separately charged with extortion and money laundering over an alleged R2.2m in protection fees. He denies it.

• Named Msibi from the stand on Day 160 as one of three businessmen he knew who are linked to alleged syndicates.
• Claimed the privilege against self-incrimination on almost everything else.
• His postponement to 24 August is why Day 161 had no witness at all.
• His plea agreement was declared null and void; trial is set for 11 September 2026.