Businessman; named by the Special Investigating Unit as the central figure in the alleged Tembisa Hospital procurement fraud · Gauteng
Named in evidence
A businessman who has been a name inside the Madlanga Commission's evidence for months without ever having been a witness before it. The Special Investigating Unit has identified Maumela as the central figure in an alleged procurement fraud at Tembisa Hospital in Gauteng, in which, on the SIU's account, a network of front companies secured more than 1,700 irregular purchase orders and diverted sums reported at up to R820 million. He entered this commission's record sideways, through other people's testimony. On Days 73 and 74, in March 2026, the North West businessman Suleiman Carrim described multimillion-rand payments running between himself, Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala and Maumela, including more than R42 million paid to a trading entity linked to Maumela's sister, and the evidence leaders put it that Carrim and Maumela appeared to be the funders behind Matlala's R360 million Medicare24 tender. On 25 August 2026 (Day 166) Matlala gave the commission his own account for the first time, after evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC established that he could not claim the privilege against self-incrimination on the subject because he is not a suspect in the SIU's Tembisa case. Matlala described a joint venture with Maumela that began around 2015 or 2016 over a shared enthusiasm for sports cars, in which each man put roughly R1 million into a joint supplier account and they answered requests for quotation from the Gauteng Department of Health through a company between them, each taking ten percent of the other's deals, for something in the order of R5 million over five years. Matlala also said he introduced Maumela to the late taxi boss Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, named in evidence as a former leader of the alleged 'Big Five' cartel, over a Pagani Huayra that Maumela wanted to sell. Every allegation on this page is untested. Maumela has not given evidence to the Madlanga Commission, has not been publicly summoned by it, and has not answered any of this before it. He is presumed innocent, and this page records what has been said about him, not a finding.
Hangwani MaumelaMorgan MaumelaTembisa HospitalSIUMedicare24 tenderBig Five cartelMadlanga Commission
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Named by the SIU as central to the alleged Tembisa Hospital procurement fraud
The Special Investigating Unit has identified Maumela as the central figure in alleged procurement fraud at Tembisa Hospital, describing a network of front companies used to secure more than 1,700 irregular purchase orders, with sums reported at up to R820 million. This is an investigative finding by an investigating body, not a conviction, and it has not been tested against him in this commission. He is presumed innocent.
Described by Carrim as a party to the payments around the Medicare24 tender (Days 73-74, March 2026)
Businessman Suleiman Carrim told the commission on 9 and 10 March 2026 about multimillion-rand transactions flowing between himself, Matlala and Maumela, including more than R42 million paid between December 2023 and November 2024 to Luthagha Trading Enterprise, an entity the evidence linked to Maumela's sister. Justice Madlanga asked Carrim why Matlala did not simply pay Maumela directly; Carrim said he had raised the question repeatedly. Carrim also said he was afraid of both men. The evidence leaders described Carrim and Maumela as the apparent funders behind the R360 million Medicare24 SAPS tender. All of it is untested and Maumela has not answered it.
The joint venture Matlala described from the witness box (Day 166, 25 August 2026)
Per the Mail & Guardian, Matlala told the commission that he and Maumela met around 2015 or 2016 through a shared enthusiasm for sports cars and set up a joint venture. Each contributed about R1 million into a neutral company bank account; from roughly 2018 they responded to requests for quotation issued by the Gauteng Department of Health through a company between them, financing the contracts out of the pooled funds; and each partner took ten percent of the profit on deals the other secured. Matlala put the total generated over about five years at around R5 million. This is one participant's account, given by a man who is himself an accused person in a related matter. It is untested, Maumela has not answered it, and describing a business relationship is not an allegation of wrongdoing.
The introduction to Jotham Msibi, over a Pagani Huayra (Day 166, 25 August 2026)
Per EWN, Matlala drew the first direct link the commission has heard between Maumela and the late Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, described in evidence on Day 161 as a former leader of the alleged 'Big Five' cartel, saying he introduced the two men. The occasion, on his account, was that Maumela wanted to sell a Pagani Huayra, a multimillion-rand sports car, and Msibi needed to organise a buyer. A Pagani Huayra valued at about R52 million was among the assets reported seized in raids connected to the Tembisa Hospital investigation. Msibi is dead and can answer none of it; Maumela has not answered it; the commission has made no finding that the two networks are connected.