Sipho Nkomo

Mr Mnisi sent a WhatsApp message on 26 February 2025 asking Sgt Nkosi who Sipho Nkomo and Joe Mabunda from TMPD were.

“you ask Sergeant Nkosi: “Who is Sipho Nkomo or Joe Mabunda from TMPD.””

Mr Mnisi's VIP security detail was unceremoniously removed without proper explanation or due process by Mr Sipho Nkomo and Joe Mabunda, who are responsible for VIP services in the City of Tshwane.

“... Mr Sipho Nkomo, with his colleague ... unceremoniously removed my VIP security without explaining ...”

Mr Mnisi was informed by his VIP protection detail that the removal decision was made by Mr Sipho Nkomo and Joe Mabunda.

“... by my VIP protection, who informed me that they had been reassigned by these two gentlemen.”

Mr Mnisi wanted to confront Mr Sipho Nkomo to understand why his VIP security was removed without explanation from the City.

“... I need to take him on so he can at least have the decency to explain to me ...”

Mr Mnisi did not know the faces or positions of Mr Sipho Nkomo and Joe Mabunda despite knowing their names and that they were responsible for his security detail.

“I know their names but I do not know them by face ... I did not know where they sit and I did not know their faces.”

There were discrepancies between the proposed Bid Specification Committee members in the original TAR and the actual Bid Specification Committee members who approved the tender, with original members including Directors Racheku, N Moosa, Commissioner Sibaya, Faik Alexander, and Pieter Robinson, and actual members including Kes Matlapen (Chairperson), Vusi Nkuna (Director Land Invasion), Sipho Nkomo (Director TMPD), Faik Alexander (Director Secretariat Services), and Pieter Robinson (Group Legal Deputy Director).

“In the original TAR, there was a proposed Bid Specification Committee, which the department then proposed, which stated that these members are Director Racheku, Director N Moosa, Commissioner Sibaya, Mr Faik Alexander, and Mr Pieter Robinson. However, when these bid specifications were serving at the initial Bid Specification Committee on Monday, 1 September, the committee members that actually did the BSC, it was not the same as the Bid Specification Committee nominations. So the members in paragraph 11 then is the actual members who approved the bid specification of this tender, and they were Mr Kes Matlapen, he was a Director at the Tshwane Metro Police, he was the Chairperson, Mr Vusi Nkuna, which is indicated as the Director Land Invasion, a Mr Sipho Nkomo, Director Tshwane Metro Police, and Mr Faik Alexander, who is from Supply Chain Management, he is the Director of Secretariat Services, and then Mr Pieter Robinson, Group Legal Deputy Director for the Corporate and Council Legal Compliance.”

The tender 12024-2025 relates to monitoring and prevention of illegal and building occupations in Tshwane, informally called the land invasion tender, and was advertised on 26 August 2024; the bid involved numerous officials and was processed with probity procedures.

“At paragraph 54 tender 12024-2025 it relates to the monitoring and prevention of illegal and building occupation service as well as the demolition of any illegally erected structures in the city of Tshwane...Informally ... we call it the land invasion tender...advertisement date was 26 August...the Bid Specification Committee included six named members...the bid was processed with probity and approved on 7 October”