KZN police take up ‘invitation’ to investigate Durban security tycoon

By Des Erasmus

Police in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said on Monday night they would investigate Durban businessman Calvin Mathibeli after he posted “malicious and baseless” allegations on social media and challenged them to probe his empire.   

“The South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal has noted with disdain the malicious, baseless, unfounded and somewhat threatening social media post by one Calvin Mojalefa Mandlakapheli Mathibeli, a businessman in KwaZulu-Natal,” provincial spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda said in a statement.

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“Police in KwaZulu-Natal did not know about Mr Mathibeli and his business dealings [before the social media post] and would like to thank him for the voluntary invitation to [investigate his] business operations,” he said.

Mathibeli, the founder of Calvin and Family Group, describes himself on the company’s website as a “self-made man” and “former garden boy” who started out repairing cellphones to cover his studies,