Controversial businessman and tenderpreneur Hangwani Morgan Maumela allegedly spent about R60 million on seven luxury cars — including a Rolls-Royce, two Aston Martins, a Ferrari, and three Lamborghinis — using funds “looted” from Tembisa Hospital.
Four of the vehicles — a Ferrari 812 Superfast, a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, an Aston Martin DBS, and an Aston Martin DB11 — were discovered at a car dealership in Mpumalanga during a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) operation this week. The vehicles are valued at more than R30 million combined.
The SIU obtained an interim court order from the Special Tribunal on September 29 to attach and preserve the seven luxury vehicles and other assets, including a R70 million mansion in Sandhurst, Sandton, belonging to Maumela, his family trust, and associates.
The order prevents Maumela and his associates from selling or transferring any of the assets while investigations into R2.3 billion worth of questionable Tembisa Hospital contracts continue.
Investigators traced the four cars to Omar’s Motor Den, a luxury dealership in eMalahleni, where they were found on the showroom floor. According to SIU spokesperson Ngwako Motsieng, the dealership refused to release the vehicles but offered surety of two unbonded properties valued at about R35 million instead.
On Thursday, the SIU conducted raids in both Sandton and eMalahleni. At Maumela’s three-storey Sandhurst mansion, investigators found three more luxury vehicles — a Lamborghini Urus SUV worth R5.3 million, a Lamborghini Aventador worth R10.4 million, and a Lamborghini Huracán STO worth R9.5 million — all nearly new and without registration plates.
The lavish property features 10 en suite bedrooms, a gym, a car wash, a beauty salon, and high-end security. Two large trucks were seen removing furniture before the SIU reached an agreement with Maumela’s legal team to halt further removals.
Omar’s Motor Den’s lawyer, Yasmin Omar, denied the vehicles were linked to Maumela, saying they were purchased legally at fair market value and accusing the SIU of making “misleading and defamatory” claims.
The SIU had sought to recover assets worth about R900 million but managed to seize only R133.5 million this week. Motsieng described the interim order as one of the most comprehensive asset preservation actions in recent times, aimed at stopping the dissipation of unlawfully acquired property.
An SIU report released last month revealed that over R2 billion was siphoned from Tembisa Hospital between 2018 and 2022 through corrupt tenders. The report also exposed payments of more than R110 million to hospital managers and their relatives, with one assistant nurse allegedly receiving R7.3 million and several clerks linked to over R140 million in suspicious payments.
