CAPE TOWN - Senior police official Hilda Senthumule insists controversial businessman Vusimusi 'Cat' Matlala did not sponsor her cosmetic surgery.
She caused a stir by showing off her figure at the Ad Hoc Committee in Parliament on Tuesday as she addressed the allegations directly.
She even joked about the public fascination with the procedure.
“People have been dying to see this BBL. They were expecting… I wouldn’t. It has become a national asset, so it must be seen,” she told MPs.
She said the procedure was done on 16 October and paid for with her own money.
Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya accused Senthumule of financially benefiting from Matlala.
He told the Madlanga Commission that Senthumule allegedly underwent a Brazilian Butt Lift procedure reportedly paid for by the alleged criminal kingpin.
Sibiya claimed the financial aid was never disclosed to the SAPS and could well amount to a conflict of interest.
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Senthumule clapped back at this allegation.
“I don’t think it’s something that for me he should have rode on as a man with a badge of honour and an allegation that he just threw from nowhere to say that Matlala paid for it,” she said.
Senthumule further told MPs that in 2023 she had not even seen Matlala at the time the procedure was done.