Referred to as: Madihlaba · Senior Superintendent Madihlaba · Colonel Madihlaba · Dr Madihlaba · Dr. Madihlaba
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Director Malatji described the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) requires critical information such as budget issues to be addressed before deployment decisions can be taken.
“The SOP requires it of us to make sure that there is a critical element of, for how long are we requesting the ad hoc services, right? So it was imperative ... to have those things before a decision could be taken to deploy security.”
Director Malatji copied Andrew and Calvin into an email because they were already instructed to deploy to the sites; he assumed deployment authority had been given to them, although he was unsure if this was confirmed with Madihlaba or Phiri regarding the service provider.
“The reason I copied Andrew and Calvin... is simple that they were, in my view, already having instruction to deploy.”
Director Malatji's office then instructs operational teams, including Dr Madihlaba's office, to conduct security risk assessments of sites requiring ad hoc security services before deployment.
“I would then instruct the office of Dr Madihlaba, right, to go and conduct security risk assessment on the site and or sites to which security, ad hoc security services are required. They would go, they would come back, then I would then say, we need to allocate the company that is going to be able to execute and or perform these functions and we take it from there.”
Once quotations from the security service company are obtained and approved by the requesting department, deployment proceeds and ongoing site management is handled by operational teams under Dr Madihlaba.
“Once we have agreed, we then get the quotation from the company in question and we send it to the requesting department for them to approve. When they have approved, then we deploy. Once we have deployed, it become now the responsibility of my office through operational management team under Dr Madihlaba to ensure that they are treating those sites like any other site where on we have deployed security officers.”
Director Malatji personally is primarily authorized to issue notification of deployment letters for ad hoc services in his department.
“Primarily, it is myself. It is myself who is authorized, or, I can, within instruction, allow Dr Madihlaba or Phiri or any other to, say, allocate the ...”
Director Malatji did not issue any instruction to Dr Madihlaba or Phiri in January and February 2025 to issue deployment letters for ad hoc services.
“I did not, Commissioner.”
Inspector Phiri is a Metro Police officer assigned as a regional supervisor for Asset Protection Security Services and reports to Colonel Madihlaba, Colonel Mahlangu, and Director Malatji but should not have deployment authority.
“Inspector Phiri has been assigned, he is a Metro Police officer that is been assigned to the APSS, the Asset Protection Security Services, as a regional supervisor. And in that turn, he reports as a regional supervisor, he reports to the then Senior Superintendent Madihlaba, who is now a Colonel Madihlaba. But he reported to, Colonel Madihlaba, Colonel Mahlangu, Reginald Mahlangu, and to Director Malatji. So that is the direct line of command between them. And as I stated already, Inspector Phiri should not have at all the authority to deploy this.”