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A police investigation has revealed that Malusi Booi, former Cape Town mayco member, accepted cash gratifications from gang members.

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The investigations follow a string of revelations made by the South African Police Service (SAPS), in which members of the 28s gang has been identified as being linked to both low-ranking police officers and the management structure in the Western Cape. In response to this, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde enrolled the services of Oswald Reddy, a retired policeman and the Western Cape’s police ombud, to investigate these links.

The Daily Maverick reports that Booi’s office was raided on 15 March as part of a fraud and corruption case. He was subsequently suspended from the mayoral committee and fired. Details about the allegations against him were filed in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court in March.

As per the SAPS’ application for a search warrant, electronic equipment was to be seized from his office, and key words including ‘tenders’ and ‘payments’ were to be scrutinized, as well as the names of alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield, and the alleged leader of the Sexy Boys gang, Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen.

Another keyword includes ‘Glomix’, which the Daily Maverick revealed that the City of Cape Town was conducting business with. The director of Glomix House Brokers is Stanfield’s wife, Nicole Johnson. The company had already come under fire in 2019, when it was reported that Glomix held a tender to build 30 houses in Valhalla Park, and both Johnson and Stanfield were allegedly linked to a criminal case regarding firearms and police corruption. The company is still involved in building projects in Valhalla Park.

In the wake of increased attention on construction-related crimes around Cape Town, Booi spoke out on twitter:


Though he has not been criminally charged, it is alleged that he accepted monetary gifts in exchange for information about housing tenders, and that he also had relationships with gangsters in Bishop Lavis. Allegations also extend to Booi sending staff to a garage in Bishop Lavis – which is owned by a suspected gangster – to collect cash amounts of between R20 000 and R100 000. This cash was reportedly to be deposited into the bank account of a personal assistant, who was then instructed to via WhatsApp to pay some of Booi’s expenses.

Booi has not released a public statement in which he addresses the allegations against him, nor has he responded to the police raid at this office, nor the investigation.

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