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Controversial North West tenderpreneur tycoon Brown Mogotsi has threatened to spill the beans and tell all about who benefited monetarily from his fellow tenderpreneur and murder accused Visimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.

He publicly came out for the first time guns blazing following a raid at his home by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), who carrying out a raid and seizure warrant for documents and gadgets, including his cellphones, as part of the investigation into allegations of being the mastermind behind the capture of the SAPS, as revealed in a detailed press conference with the media by KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lt. General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi on July 6 this year.

Mogotsi, a close friend of suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who is accused of intruded into the operations of the SAPS relating to the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team, told the media that when his time comes to testify at both the Justice Madlanga Commission r the Parliamentary AD Hoc Committee, he would tell as as to who benefited financially from murder accused Matlala, saying one of the political organisations that benefited was the ANC.

“When I tell you that he told me he funded the ANC, what makes you not believe that I know who else benefited. I will tell all when I am called to both the Justice Madlanga Commission and the Parliamentary AD Hoc Committee. You will know then,” Mogotsi said, berating the police raid on his business and house in Mahikeng in the North West.

Mogotsi is the man in the centre of accusations that Minister Mchunu tacitly allowed the capture of the SAPS and the disbandment of the task team, with pressure exerted from behind jail walls by Matlala to Mogotsi.

Mogotsi pressured Minister Mchunu to act, and when he did, Mogotsi, then contacted by Matlala, told Matlala the task team has been disbanded by Minister Mchunu and has also ordered the more than 100 dockets to handed to Shadrack Sibiya [now suspended deputy national police commissioner for crime detection Lt. General Shadrack Sibiya]. “Those dockets are on their way to Sibiya as we chat on WhatsApp,” Mogotsi said.

When Lt. General Mkhwanazi approached the Minister Mchunu on the disbandment of the task team, the Minister is said to have denied knowledge of the disbandment but this had been earlier confirmed to Mkhwanazi by National Police Commissioner Lt. General Fannie Masemola, who said he had heard the Minister [Mchunu] had disbanded the task team and ordered all the dockets to be handed to Sibiya.

Mkhwanazi said he had furthered confronted Minister Mchunu about controversial businessman [Brown Mogotsi and his communication with murder accused Matlala], Mchunu initially denied knowing Mogotsi but when he was told by Mkhwanazi that he had text messages of communication himself [Mchunu] and Mogotsi and [Mogotsi with Matlala] on this matter, Mchunu is later said to have told Mkhwanazi he knew Mogotsi as his comrade from North West.

The fact that Mogotsi was highly connected in the ANC was also confirmed by ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula, who then claimed Mogotsi was no longer an ANC member as his membership had expired. “After all this accusations on Minister Mchunu and text exchanges with Mogotsi and Matlala, I then went to check the membership of Mogotsi and I discovered it had expired, and hence I say Mogotsi is not or no longer a member of the ANC,” Mbalula told a media briefing.

During his outburst on police raids on his house and business, Mogotsi warned that the ‘die poppie sal dance’, which is Afrikaans for puppetry, will be at play soon. “I will tell all and mention the other beneficiary or beneficiaries of Matala’s sponsorship,” Mogotsi said.