By Anita Dangazele
- Prosecutor Thami Mpekane told court Dorothy Mogotsi gave police a false address and is working with her husband to hide where he actually lives.
- Mogotsi faces charges of perjury, defeating the ends of justice, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and discharging a firearm in a public space.
Brown Mogotsi’s wife gave police a false address and is actively helping him hide where he lives, a Johannesburg court heard on Monday.
Prosecutor Thami Mpekane told the court that investigating officers travelled to Mahikeng in the North West to verify the residential address Mogotsi and his wife Dorothy gave to police. They found nothing.
“This is a false address, and both Dorothy and the applicant is not residing at the mentioned address,” Mpekane said.
“In my view, Dorothy is in cahoots with the applicant not to furnish the correct residential address.”
It is not the first time Mogotsi has struggled to account for where he lives. When he was arrested on 15 May, he could not provide a full residential address at all.
Mogotsi is facing charges of perjury, defeating the ends of justice, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and discharging a firearm in a public space. The charges relate to an alleged assassination attempt on his life in Vosloorus last November, which the state says he faked.
Mpekane told the court that witness statements, a ballistic crime scene reconstruction report and CCTV footage show Mogotsi got out of his maroon Chevrolet Aveo and shot at the vehicle himself.
“The complainant Mogotsi is false and his version he gave is contradicted by independent forensic evidence,” Mpekane said.
The state is opposing bail. In an affidavit read to the court that a detective detailed how Mogotsi approached him inside the cell complex after his warning statement was taken and asked what he could do so his bail would not be opposed.
“Is there something that I can do for you, not to oppose my bail,” Mogotsi said, according to the detective’s sworn statement.
The detective said in the affidavit that he told Mogotsi immediately not to go down that road. Mogotsi denied it was a bribe attempt, then offered to provide information instead. The detective said the offer made no sense to him and he left the cells.
The perjury charges carry particular weight given that Mogotsi told the Madlanga commission of inquiry in November 2025 that gunmen followed him and fired at his car. “I ran for my life,” he told the commission.
Mogotsi has denied all charges. His bail application was postponed to 28 May 2026 for address verification.
Pictured above: Alleged political fixer Brown Mogotsi appears in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court.
Image source: X: @TheTruthPanther
