{"id":2662,"date":"2026-04-21T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:07:39","slug":"saps-chief-masemola-in-court-over-alleged-tender-graft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/saps-chief-masemola-in-court-over-alleged-tender-graft\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPS chief Masemola in court over alleged tender graft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fannie Masemola, South Africa&#8217;s national police commissioner, appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday in connection with claims of contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The allegations relate to the irregularly awarded multi-million-rand Medicare24 tender. It&#8217;s the same tender for which\u00a0Vusimuzi Matlala\u00a0and 12 police officers face corruption charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He faces four counts of contravening the Public Finance Management Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media after his appearance, Masemola said he was &#8220;undoubtedly innocent&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The matter has been postponed to May, where Masemola will share the dock with\u00a0Matlala, who is alleged to be one of the country\u2019s most notorious criminals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fannie Masemola, South Africa&#8217;s national police commissioner, appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday in connection with claims of contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). The allegations relate to the irregularly awarded multi-million-rand Medicare24 tender. It&#8217;s the same tender for which\u00a0Vusimuzi Matlala\u00a0and 12 police officers face corruption charges. He faces four counts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[392,393,277,107],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-south-africa","tag-masemola","tag-matlala","tag-saps","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}