Overview
- Testifying in Pretoria, Brown Mogotsi alleged that Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala said National Commissioner Fannie Masemola expected a R25 million kickback from a SAPS tender and had already received R5 million, and that former police minister Bheki Cele received R2 million.
- Mogotsi further claimed Matlala gave money to KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, with one allegation placing a payoff at Mkhwanazi’s uMhlanga Ridge home in July.
- Describing himself as a long‑time SAPS crime‑intelligence contact agent, Mogotsi said he posed as an infiltrator around Mkhwanazi and Matlala, briefed suspended deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya on an irregular R360 million tender, and rejected assertions that he was a conduit for Senzo Mchunu.
- Commissioners questioned Mogotsi on his response to Mkhwanazi’s 6 July media briefing as Phase Two gives implicated figures a platform to put their versions on record before evidence is tested in later stages.
- In testimony a day earlier, Maj-Gen Mary Motsepe conceded the 121 KZN political‑killing dockets “gathered dust” at national head office, while Lt-Col Ntate Khumalo detailed a rushed, messy handover and docket-count discrepancies before the files were returned in August.