General Matlou

General Matlou is Head of Risk at SAPS, has personal ties to Perumal and is a witness in many IDAC matters.

“General Matlou is a witness on many matters within the IDAC... She has a very close personal relationship with Mr Perumal... He is also former SAPS...”

General Matlou from Police Risk Audit alerted the National Commissioner to unlawful corruption in the Medicare contract and advised him as Accounting Officer to stop the contract and payments.

“General Matlou, from the Risk Audit of the police, brought it to the attention of the then Commissioner to say that there is these offences taking place. There is unlawfulness happening in this contract, and Commissioner, as the Accounting Officer, you need to stop the contract, and therefore stop, it would therefore stop the payment.”

General Matlou advised General Masemola to consider terminating the contract with Medicare to prevent irreparable financial harm to SAPS, and General Masemola accepted the advice and terminated the contract.

“she then advised General Masemola to consider terminating the contract with Medicare to save SAPS from irreparable harm and to diminish the financial prejudices suffered by SAPS. Then she says General Masemola terminated. So General Masemola accepted the advice.”

General Masemola took time before acting on the advice and information given by Risk Officer General Matlou, during which period monies were released.

“General Matlou, he took quite a bit of time before he acted on the information and the advice given. And it is precisely because he took a long time, it is in that period that monies became released.”

SAPS paid R50 million throughout the contract, not solely after General Matlou's advice was provided to General Masemola.

“How I read this affidavit, it says the 50 million is what was paid throughout, not after the advice was given.”

General Matlou submitted a preliminary report together with her Section 27 affidavit regarding the matter.

“I am given to understand that General Matlou submitted a preliminary report together with the section 27 affidavit.”

Major General Matlou submitted a section 27 referral affidavit together with an unprovided preliminary report, triggering the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of General Masemola regarding an alleged unlawful tender award to Medicare 24 Tshwane District.

“General Matlou's affidavit is what eventually triggered the arrest, the eventual arrest and prosecution of General Masemola.”

General Matlou submitted a referral affidavit indicating that she initiated a criminal investigation into the unlawful awarding of a tender to Medicare 24, which resulted in a contract that General Masemola subsequently terminated.

“General Matlou had indicated that she was initiating a criminal investigation into the unlawful awarding of a tender to Medicare and if one has regard to 6, we learned that, 7, we learned that Medicare 24 was awarded that tender and resulting in a contract being concluded. And at 8 we learned that General Masemola terminated that contract.”

General Masemola terminated the Medicare 24 contract on 15 May based on the findings and advice of an Internal Audit report that was made available to him prior to that date.

“that internal audit report that General Matlou references at her paragraph 5, as I understand things it is what gave General Masemola the basis to terminate. ... So he acted upon the advice of Internal Audit seemingly.”

IDAC only became aware of the findings and basis for General Masemola's termination of the contract on 26 June 2026 upon receipt of a 284-page affidavit by General Matlou.

“findings only came to the attention of IDAC on the 26th of June 2026... that was by way of a further affidavit by General Matlou dated the 26th of June 2026... So officially for purposes of investigation, that is the first time IDAC even becomes aware of the basis on which General Masemola eventually had to terminate on the 5th of May 2025.”

General Masemola terminated the SAPS contract with Medicare on or about 15 May 2025 following advice from General Matlou, by which time SAPS had suffered approximately R50 million in financial prejudice.

“having advised the National Commissioner to terminate the contract with Medicare to save the SAPS from irreparable harm and to diminish the financial prejudice being suffered by the SAPS, General Masemola ultimately terminated the contract with Medicare on or about the 15th of May. By that time, SAPS had suffered prejudice of approximately 50 million.”

General Matlou's section 27 referral is non-compliant with section 27 and did not trigger the mandate of IDAC.

“Let us go to General Matlou's referral, which we have agreed is wholly non-compliant with section 27, which based on our conversation over the past two days, did not trigger the mandate of IDAC.”

General Matlou's department (Internal Audit Risk and Integrity Management) received a request from the Minister of Police on 9 January 2025 initiating an internal audit process.

“And at paragraph 3, General Matlou states that her department, Internal Audit Risk and Integrity Management, received a request from the Minister of Police on the 9th of January 2025 and that is what initiated this process.”

General Matlou concluded in an internal audit affidavit commissioned on 26 June 2024 that specified SAPS transactions constitute corruption and requested corrective, remedial, and criminal action.

“And at 3817 she concludes: “The abovementioned transactions constitute corruption. On behalf of the South African Police Service, I would like corrective, remedial and criminal action to be instituted in this regard.””

IDAC procured the preliminary report directly from General Matlou.

“And just to indicate, IDAC procured it from General Matlou.”

Adv Sello SC and Adv Johnson discussed a preliminary internal audit report (marked CJC399 starting at 3818) submitted in Exhibit File 9A, received alongside General Matlou's section 27 statement.

“you indicated that there was a preliminary internal audit report that had been availed. I confirm a document has been availed to the Commission.”

National Police Commissioner General Masemola terminated the Medicare 24 Tshwane contract approximately two weeks after receiving the preliminary audit report signed by Acting Chief Audit Executive T E Mogwana and Chief Risk Officer Major General Matlou.

“By Acting Chief Audit Executive T E Mogwana [?] and by Chief Risk Officer Major General Matlou. In fact, it is the 29th of April. 29th of April 2025. And we know from General Matlou's section 27 referral that by the 15th of May, General Masemola had terminated that contract.”

General Matlou's section 27 affidavit contains no evidence of irregular, unlawful, or criminal conduct attributable to General Masemola.

“insofar as General Masemola is concerned, it does not cure the shortcomings in the section 27 affidavit as submitted by General Matlou because it is absolutely silent on either irregular conduct, unlawful conduct, or criminality attributable to General Masemola.”

Mr Padayachee and General Matlou used reckless claims and accusations to impugn General Madondo's integrity in opposition to a bail condition amendment application.

“this resistance to an amendment of that condition has invited Mr Padayachee, General, what is their name, Matlou, to seriously impugn General Madondo's integrity and by throwing wanton claims against her and accusations.”

Mr Padayachee solicited an affidavit from General Matlou to resist General Madondo's court application to amend bail conditions.

“clearly he is gone to SAPS to go solicit an affidavit from General Matlou. I do not know what he has to do with these issues, but he got it.”

General Matlou's affidavit filed in the bail appeal made irrelevant allegations regarding General Madondo's security vetting file, lack of security, and propensity for dishonesty without factual basis.

“the affidavit of General Madondo, it does not seem to even speak to anything that would be relevant. Even if it were permissible. I mean, she is not alleging facts. She says she works in Crime Intelligence. She has a propensity to be dishonest. She does not have security. That has nothing to do with this appeal.”

General Matlou colluded with Colonel Padayachee to oppose General Madondo's bail application despite having no involvement in the underlying legal matter.

“what interest did she have to file this kind of affidavit opposing a bail application where she is not involved whatsoever in the matter, and here colluding with Colonel Padayachee because he says pretty much the same things which have nothing to do with the bail appeal.”