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Brown Mogotsi appears in court, June 4, 2026.
The Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court has denied bail to North West businessman and alleged political fixer Brown Mogotsi.
Mogotsi was arrested on 15 May on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, discharging a firearm in a built-up area, defeating the ends of justice, and perjury.
He is accused of staging a hit on his own life in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, in November last year.
Magistrate Annalise Tlhapi, in delivering her ruling, found that the residential addresses provided by Mogotsi did not correspond and could not be accepted by the court.
“There are three different addresses here provided by the applicant. All three addresses, they don’t correspond. The applicant failed to prove before this court that he has a proper address. The court cannot accept the applicant’s version that it is an error by the landlord to write a wrong address, as house number 4454 in the lease agreement,” Tlhapi said.
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