Malatji under fire over claimed ignorance of tender irregularities

By Johnathan Paoli

Suspended Director of Assets at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji, has come under fire at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry for conflicting testimony, as the commission continues to probe a controversial multi-million rand security tender.

Appearing on Thursday, Malatji initially maintained that no concerns about irregularities were ever brought to his attention during the Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC) process.

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“I can assure the Commissioner and this Commission that from the beginning to the end, we never had a situation where there was a complaint to the effect that documents were tampered with, and so forth and so on. We just waited. We waited for a very long time,” Malatji said.

However his claims drew sustained skepticism from commission chair Mbuyiseli Madlanga and other commissioners, who questioned how a senior official so deeply involved in the