Named in evidence as one of five men in a photograph the commission links to the alleged 'Big Five' · Gauteng
Named in evidence · has not testified · presumed innocent
One of the five men identified in a photograph that evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube put before the Madlanga Commission on 2 September 2026 (Day 172). Per SABC News and EWN, the image was recovered from the phone of murder-accused businessman Katiso 'KT' Molefe, and the commission's evidence is that it shows Molefe, private security businessman Steve Motsumi, Mothakathi, the man known as 'King Nyambose', and the late taxi boss Jotham 'Mswazi' Msibi - the grouping Crime Intelligence has called the 'Big Five'. That is the whole of what the public record before this commission says about him: he is a man in a photograph, named by an evidence leader, put to a witness who said he did not know him. He has not been charged before this commission, has never given evidence to it, and has not been asked to answer anything. A photograph of people together is not evidence of an agreement between them. Nothing on this page is a finding of any kind and he is presumed innocent.
This profile summarises testimony and evidence given on the public record before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. It restates allegations as presented at the hearings and is not a finding of guilt, liability, or wrongdoing by any person.
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Identified as one of five men in the photograph from Molefe's phone (Day 172)
On 2 September 2026 the commission was shown a photograph recovered from Katiso Molefe's phone. Per SABC News, Segeels-Ncube identified the men in it as Molefe, Steve Motsumi, Ignatius Mothakathi, Andrew 'Boy' Mthethwa (known as 'King Nyambose') and Jotham 'Mswazi' Msibi; TimesLIVE, which reports Mthethwa's first name differently, adds that the photograph was taken on 21 June 2022. Retired Hawks national head Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya, to whom it was shown, said he did not know any of them. No allegation of specific conduct by Mothakathi has been led before the commission, nothing has been tested, and he is presumed innocent.