PRETORIA - Vusimuzi Matlala is distancing himself from a consignment described as a ‘white brick’, which he discussed with an associate on WhatsApp.
Testifying at the Madlanga Commission, Matlala said he was merely a middleman and had no interest in finding out what the product was.
He claimed he was told it was a mineral product.
“First of all, it was not my product. So, I didn’t have to worry myself about getting the exact name of the product. So I just forwarded it to people to satisfy Smanga.
"And even himself, he was also getting bias from his side. So it’s not something that I wanted to make money out of myself," he said.
"So, whatever I got, I thought the asset is to Smanga. So I was not excited that maybe I have cocaine, I’ll make money out of it or whatever.
"For me, it’s something which I did not even want to go out of my way to find out how much will, where can I get them? Because at the end of the day, I didn’t even sell that thing. I didn’t even see it.”