In December 2018, jikat reported how two officials in the Limpopo municipalities that deposited millions of rands of public funds in the now-defunct VBS Bank asked for expensive gifts and a share in the loot grabbed during the bank heist.
Two officials in the Limpopo municipalities that deposited millions of rands of public funds in the now-defunct VBS Mutual Bank asked for expensive gifts and a share in the loot grabbed during the bank heist.
Matsepe is one of the people listed in the Motau report as having received “gratuitous” payments from VBS. The answering papers from Motau also reveal details of how suspended Collins Chabane municipality municipal manager Charlotte Ngobeni and former Makhado municipality chief financial officer Mikateko Makhubela were requesting favours from Matsepe, who is linked to the VBS bank heist.
In one of the messages, sent in January, Ngobeni asked Matsepe to bring her a gift from his trip to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. Ngobeni told the Mail & Guardian that she had not received any gifts from Matsepe. “Those messages were innocent. They have nothing to do with VBS because Kabelo Matsepe was not even part of us investing in VBS. I know him on a personal level, not on a professional level. He never did any business with us. That was a friendly gesture; he did not bring back anything.
“So I get 33k out of all my efforts ... pls u Giyani u must make it up to me,” reads the message. Matsepe responded: “cause it’s a smaller pie and will get something when the period is 6 month, D said deputy Mayor must not get anything from this thing” and “he said he told her”.
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