IN PICS | Sars sells off Hamilton Ndlovu’s supercars

Covid-19 tenderpreneur Hamilton Ndlovu's chickens have come home to roost, with the supercars bought with his millions earned from dodgy personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts now under the hammer after being seized by the SA Revenue Service (Sars).

Ndlovu, who later admitted it was “in poor taste”, made himself famous when he posted a video on social media boasting about his fleet of luxury vehicles worth more than R11m. They included  three Porsches, a Jeep and a Lamborghini. In the 40-second clip, the flashy businessman explained the specs of each car and which family member he bought it for.

But he was soon labelled by Twitterati as Mampara of the Year when it became known he had used fronting companies of which he and his wife were directors to procure PPE supplies to the National Health Laboratory Service while having zero experience in how to do so.

Now five of Ndlovu's luxurious cars are set to be auctioned by Park Village auctions on Wednesday: a 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera, a 2019 Lamborghini Urus 4.0 V8, a 2019 Porsche Panamera GTS, a 2021 Jeep Cherokee SRT and a 2020 Porsche Cayenne S. 

“The Lamborghini is in huge demand as well as the Porsches. They really are beautiful cars and there are some really nice options. There has been a lot interest in them,” Park Village's Clive Lazarus said.

The yellow and black Lamborghini, has a cracked windscreen, sports black rims and mileage of 31,395km. Red leather seats and a steering wheel dominate the interior of the luxurious vehicle.

A deposit of R50,000 is required for bidders.

Bidding will take place on Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

Park Village is conducting the auction under the instruction of curator bonis Zaheer Cassim, appointed by the courts to take control of Ndlovu's assets and recover money owed to creditors.

In 2021, the Pretoria high court made final a preservation order that Sars obtained against Ndlovu to freeze his bank accounts and seize his vehicles. 

In 2022, the Special Investigating Unit's Special Tribunal confirmed an order banning him from doing business with the state — and ordering him and his business associates to repay R150m.

The Special Tribunal in June last year set aside and declared unlawful the PPE contracts worth more than R150m awarded to Ndlovu and companies related to him.

Ndlovu and his companies were also blacklisted from doing business with the state in terms of section 15 of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act.

Special Tribunal judge Lebogang Modiba calculated up to R158m should be repaid to the state.

Ndlovu filed for leave to appeal the ruling but in January the Special Tribunal reaffirmed that “the order still stands and the assets remained preserved”.

According to the SIU, Modiba “ruled that Ndlovu and others did not dispute the serious allegations of procurement fraud, and therefore had no legal basis for resisting the preservation order”.

“The purpose of the preservation order was to preserve specific assets and protect them against damage or loss of value pending their final forfeiture. The Special Tribunal found that it was not in the interest of justice to allow Ndlovu and others to retain possession of the preserved assets,” Modiba was quoted as saying.

When approached for comment, Ndlovu asked the Sunday Times to text him questions as he “was in a meeting”. The texts were unanswered at the time of publication.