# 49 year old arrested at OR Tambo

An episode of [The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1074292047), 16 Oct 2026, 4:52.

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Mandy Wiener speaks to EWN Reporter, Kgomotso Modise about the man's arrest at OR Tambo airport for neglecting to appear before the Madlanga Commission. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: So let's start in the courts. Gemotso Modise, EWN reporter,
[0:03] Speaker 1: is there for us. Gemotso, good afternoon to you. We
[0:06] Speaker 1: are waiting for this businessman to appear. What are the
[0:09] Speaker 1: police saying so far?
[0:12] Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Mandy. Well, we know that the 49-year-old man
[0:14] Speaker 2: that was arrested yesterday at the Aratambo International Airport is
[0:18] Speaker 2: going to be appearing sometime today at the Pretoria Magistrates Court.
[0:22] Speaker 2: Police have confirmed that he's arrested in connection with failing
[0:26] Speaker 2: to appear before the Malanga Commission. as a warrant for
[0:28] Speaker 2: his arrest had been issued. We also know that he's
[0:32] Speaker 2: been investigated for fraud and corruption at the Ngakamudurimulema municipality
[0:37] Speaker 2: in the northwest. And so he's got links and ties
[0:40] Speaker 2: to the northwest as well. And we're waiting for his
[0:43] Speaker 2: appearance any moment now. What we know about his arrest
[0:47] Speaker 2: is that police say they had been looking for him
[0:52] Speaker 2: for a while and he was evasive, he wasn't cooperating properly.
[0:54] Speaker 2: And that's why they've decided to arrest him at the
[0:56] Speaker 2: Orotamu International Airport just before he boarded a flight or
[1:00] Speaker 2: was meant to board a flight, an international flight with
[1:03] Speaker 2: his family.
[1:04] Speaker 1: Do we know where he was going, if he was
[1:06] Speaker 1: intending to come back, why he was going, any of
[1:09] Speaker 1: that detail?
[1:11] Speaker 2: The police haven't told us where he was going. In fact,
[1:14] Speaker 2: police spokesperson Aflenda Mate says that his lawyers will be
[1:18] Speaker 2: the ones to dive out to the court about where
[1:20] Speaker 2: he was going. What we know, though, is that he
[1:23] Speaker 2: had a return ticket booked And so Mate has said
[1:27] Speaker 2: that they have no evidence that he was fleeing from
[1:30] Speaker 2: the country because it seems from what they know about
[1:33] Speaker 2: his trip, he was planning to return to South Africa
[1:36] Speaker 2: with his family. But the details around his trip, how
[1:39] Speaker 2: long he was going to be away for, we know
[1:42] Speaker 2: very little about that. All we know is that police
[1:45] Speaker 2: are categorizing this as a Schedule 1 offense. And so
[1:50] Speaker 2: it's yet to be seen how the state will be
[1:51] Speaker 2: addressing this. But, of course, if the state does oppose
[1:55] Speaker 2: his release on bail, then they'll have to give reasons
[1:58] Speaker 2: for why he should not be released on bail, as
[2:01] Speaker 2: the schedule against the 49-year-old is a Schedule 1 offense.
[2:05] Speaker 1: Do we know what the actual charge is?
[2:08] Speaker 2: So they're treating this charge as contempt of court. That's
[2:12] Speaker 2: what Plenda Maté has said to us as the media.
[2:16] Speaker 2: Of course, We haven't seen this before, particularly when it
[2:19] Speaker 2: comes to the Majanga Commission. But I also don't have memory, Mandy,
[2:22] Speaker 2: of this happening before.
[2:23] Speaker 1: Normally they pick somebody up on a different charge, like
[2:26] Speaker 1: an insurance fraud or something. So it's interesting what the
[2:31] Speaker 1: actual charge is.
[2:32] Speaker 2: Yes. All we know from police at this stage is
[2:35] Speaker 2: that they are treating it as contempt of court. And
[2:37] Speaker 2: the reason that police are giving it is because the
[2:41] Speaker 2: Majanga Commission is a judicial commission of inquiry. And so
[2:44] Speaker 2: he's being treated or the process rather and the commission
[2:47] Speaker 2: rather is being treated as contempt. would be treated like
[2:50] Speaker 2: in the high court. And so his failure to appear
[2:53] Speaker 2: before the commission is then being considered contempt of court. However,
[2:57] Speaker 2: the details, I think, will be given further as soon
[3:00] Speaker 2: as the suspect appears in the magistrate's court any moment now.
[3:03] Speaker 1: We'll take that live as it happens. Thank you very much.
[3:06] Speaker 1: Let's have a listen to what the police spokesperson, Atlende Maite,
[3:11] Speaker 1: has had to say.
[3:12] Speaker 3: He was flagged by our cold case unit. on charges
[3:17] Speaker 3: of fraud and corruption that are under investigation that relate
[3:22] Speaker 3: to the Ngakamu de Rimulema District Municipality in the Northwest Province.
[3:28] Speaker 3: And so the team was alerted that this particular individual
[3:32] Speaker 3: was flying out of the country.
[3:34] Speaker 1: They flagged him.
[3:35] Speaker 3: They alerted the cold case unit. The cold case unit
[3:38] Speaker 3: then alerted the commission's recommendations task team because they have
[3:42] Speaker 3: been working closely. We know that he is facing a
[3:46] Speaker 3: charge of failure to appear before the Matanga Commission of Inquiry.
[3:53] Speaker 3: You will know that the Matanga Commission of Inquiry, it
[3:57] Speaker 3: operates like a high court because it's presided by a judge. Um,
[4:01] Speaker 3: so he previously appeared and when he was required to
[4:06] Speaker 3: appear again and to provide a further documentation, um, he
[4:10] Speaker 3: fails to provide valid reasons as to why he could not, um,
[4:15] Speaker 3: appear before the Madanga commission of inquiry.
[4:18] Speaker 1: Brigadier Atlanta Mate speaking there as we wait for that businessman.
[4:23] Speaker 1: You know who he is, I'm sure. And if you
[4:25] Speaker 1: don't know, keep listening. We'll let you know soon, as
[4:27] Speaker 1: soon as he appears. Um, I wonder, can you claim
[4:30] Speaker 1: to not be a flight risk in a bail application
[4:33] Speaker 1: if you're arrested at an airport while trying to leave
[4:36] Speaker 1: the country? I suppose he could say or have to
[4:38] Speaker 1: prove that he had a business meeting. Maybe that's probably
[4:42] Speaker 1: why he bought a return flight so that he could
[4:46] Speaker 1: show that if he was arrested that he had a
[4:49] Speaker 1: return flight. So I wonder how that's going to be managed.

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