Nkosi denies tipping off Matlala about police raid at his house

Sergeant Fannie Nkosi has denied that he was the officer who tipped off controversial businessman Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala of a police raid at his house.

Phone records before the Madlanga Commission show Nkosi was in constant communication with Matlala days leading up to the raid.

On 6 December 2024, police pounced on Matlala's Waterkloof Ridge home following up on intel that kidnapped businessman, Jerry Boshoga, was being kept on the premises.

Witness C, a counter-intelligence officer at SAPS, told the Madlanga Commission last year he believed the reason they didn’t find Boshoga at Matlala's home was that he had been moved.

Witness C testified that he believed someone in the police tipped Matlala off.

Call records before the Madlanga Commission show there were calls between Nkosi and Matlala on the two days leading up to the raid and even on the day of the raid.

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Nkosi said he was calling Matlala to hand himself over to police so he could answer questions on two kidnapping cases he was linked with.

Co-Commissioner Sandile Khumalo: “Based on your answer, it would mean either on the 4/5 December, you told Cat Matlala that the police wanted to interview him in relation to the Jerry Boshoga kidnapping?”

Fannie Nkosi: “Yes.”

SK: “So he would’ve known from you that the police regard him as a suspect in the Jerry Boshoga case?”

FN: “I want to put it in a more understandable manner. When my honourable commissioners say he might have heard it from me, it’s on the basis of an investigation. He’s a businessman, I can’t be saying to him, come to the police station without a reasonable explanation why, so I had to inform him.”

Testifying before the Parliamentary ad-hoc committee in November last year, Matlala denied having anything to do with the kidnapping of Boshoga.