Ex-CoCT Mayco member Booi, alleged gang boss Stanfield tied together in corruption case

CAPE TOWN - More than a year after former Cape Town Mayco Member for Human Settlements Malusi Booi told EWN that he wanted his day in court over corruption allegations, that day finally arrived. 

In September this year, he was in the dock after he was arrested at his farm in the Eastern Cape.

The arrest was as a result of a long police investigation which came to a head when Booi's office was raided by the Hawks in March 2023 on corruption suspicions.

At the time, Booi was alleged to have accepted bribes from underworld figures in exchange for information about construction tenders within his directorate.
 
Laptops and cellphones were seized from Booi and some of his staff members as part of the police investigation into corruption allegations within the city's human settlements directorate.

Booi was suspended as a Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor shortly after the raid and fired from his position a week later.

In September, Booi was arrested alongside nine others, including his ex-wife and a former girlfriend, in a billion rand tender fraud case.

The State has since added more accused to the indictment, including alleged 28s gang boss, Ralph Stanfield, and his wife, Nicole Johnson. 

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila, said they're all accused of being part of Stanfield and Johnson's criminal enterprise.

"As we speak, we have 26 accused in this case. We have decided, as the State, to join the cases because they are overlapping. You will find in some cases, some of them were members of a gang and some were members of the enterprise, and they were working together, which means their activities were overlapping."

Booi and nine of his-co accused are out on bail, while 16 others are behind prison bars.

The group will be back in the dock on 31 January.

They're facing 54 charges, including murder, fraud and corruption.