{"id":93225,"date":"2025-11-20T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:53:09","slug":"madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated","title":{"rendered":"Madlanga Commission Witness Claims Will Be Corroborated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi is adamant that the outlandish claims he\u2019s presented before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will be corroborated by other witnesses, who are yet to testify.<\/p>\n<p>During cross-examination, Mogotsi struggled to provide direct answers to questions about his links to suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and criminally-accused Vusimuzi &#8220;Cat&#8221; Matlala.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of message exchanges between Mogotsi, Matlala and Mchunu were interrogated, with Mogotsi accused of getting caught in a web of lies.<\/p>\n<p>Claims of CIA operatives, coded messages, and accusations of political interference in high-profile police investigations from a self-proclaimed secret agent.<\/p>\n<p>The testimony by Mogotsi before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry sounds like something straight out of a 007 movie.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Madlanga Commission of Inquiry chief evidence leader, Advocate Matthew Chaskalson, Mogotsi\u2019s testimony is on par with a James Bond script.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reminded of what the villain says in one of those early James Bond movies: &#8216;Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action&#8217;. 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Controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi is adamant that the outlandish claims he\u2019s presented before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will be corroborated by other witnesses, who are yet to testify. During cross-examination, Mogotsi struggled to provide direct answers to questions about his links to suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and criminally-accused Vusimuzi &#8220;Cat&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":93223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-93225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Madlanga Commission Witness Claims Will Be Corroborated - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi is adamant that the outlandish claims he\u2019s presented before the Madlanga Commiss ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madlanga Commission Witness Claims Will Be Corroborated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi is adamant that the outlandish claims he\u2019s presented before the Madlanga Commiss ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T17:32:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T17:53:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1763648531.701239.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Madlanga Commission Witness Claims Will Be Corroborated\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-20T17:32:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-20T17:53:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\"},\"wordCount\":264,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1763648531.701239.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-witness-claims-will-be-corroborated\",\"name\":\"Madlanga Commission Witness Claims Will Be Corroborated - 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