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Ex-cape Town Mayco Member Malusi Booi Arrested

What the papers are saying about the arrest of Malusi Booi:

Former City of Cape Town human settlements mayoral committee member Malusi Booi, who was fired in 2023 after his official office was raided during a corruption investigation with offshoots leading to organised crime suspects, has now been arrested.

While the South African Police Service has not yet named him because he is yet to appear in court, Daily Maverick understands he is among those who were detained over two days in a crackdown targeting alleged criminality linked to the City’s human settlements directorate.

Allegations previously surfaced that Booi accepted cash from an organised crime suspect or suspects in exchange for information relating to housing tenders. This led to him being suspended, dismissed and resigning as a…

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Cape Town – Axed City of Cape Town Mayco member Malusi Booi is set to make his first appearance in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today after being busted for corruption charges linked to alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield.

Nearly a year after his offices were raided and his electronic equipment seized, the Cape Argus can reveal that police arrested Booi at his home in the Eastern Cape on Monday.

Booi, who was the former Mayco member for human settlements, was suspended by Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis in March last year as it was revealed police had launched an investigation into an alleged R700 million mega-fraud probe.

According to a source at the municipality, Booi’s arrest comes amid a probe into the links between construction…

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Former City of Cape Town mayoral committee member Malusi Booi was arrested in connection with a fraud and corruption tender case. (Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images)

  • Former City of Cape Town mayoral committee member Malusi Booi has been arrested.
  • Booi was arrested on Monday evening in the Eastern Cape.
  • In March last year, police raided Booi’s offices, which saw him removed from the human settlements portfolio.

Malusi Booi, a former City of Cape Town mayoral committee member, was arrested in connection with a fraud and corruption tender case.

Western Cape police said officials swooped on a location in the Eastern Cape on…

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