Lindiwe Matlali, founder and CEO of Swerfvalk.
EXCLUSIVE: A tech CEO with direct ties to the President’s office is building a SECRETIVE DRONE ARMY right here in South Africa. Lindiwe Matlali, a commissioner on Cyril Ramaphosa’s 4IR commission, has launched Swerfvalk—a company developing AI-powered drones and COUNTER-DRONE systems for “complex operational environments.” This isn’t hobbyist photography; this is the militarization of our skies, and it’s being sold as “infrastructure inspection.”
INSIDERS ARE WARNING that Swerfvalk’s “mission-ready” technology, developed with a UK university for counter-drone capabilities, represents a quantum leap in domestic surveillance and autonomous threat response. Matlali admits the focus is on “high-risk” sites and “security threats,” leveraging AI to make lethal decisions in milliseconds. This is a PRIVATE COMPANY, founded by a government insider, creating tools that could be used to QUASH DISSENT or monitor citizens under the guise of protecting infrastructure.
The DANGEROUS FRAGMENTATION she claims to solve is a smokescreen for consolidating unprecedented aerial control. By combining hardware, software, and “operational workflows,” Swerfvalk isn’t just selling drones—it’s selling a turnkey surveillance state apparatus. With partnerships in place and “compliance” as its shield, the company is poised to become the unregulated, for-profit enforcer for both corporations and the state.
As regulatory bodies sleepwalk, this “deep-tech” venture is actively reducing our “dependence on imported black box technologies” by building our own, with zero public oversight into their capabilities or safeguards. The future of security is being outsourced to a startup, and the sky will never look the same again. The question is no longer if they are watching, but who they are targeting first.


