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Controversial North West Province so-called political fixer Oupa Brown Mogotsi has been forced to eat humble pie when he was ordered by the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee to unequivocally apologise to AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini and KwaZulu provincial police commissioner Lt. Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi for accusing them of being spies of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Members of the Ad Hoc committee ordered him to produce evidence around his accusations that King Misuzulu and Lt. Gen. Mkhwanazi are CIA agents and when he failed to do so, Mogotsi was warned that he would be charged for perjury, and further open himself for potential defamatory litigation from those he has accused.

Mogotsi had in November last year told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that King Misuzulu and Lt. Gen. Mkhwanazi had both been recruited as CIA spies and that he had travelled all the way to Kenya to meet an active CIA spy in that country to seek concrete evidence of confirmation of the allegations he had levelled against the two but came back empty handed.

When he failed to produce the said evidence of his accusations, the committee ordered him to issue an apology to the King and Mkhwanazi, failing which he would be charged with perjury.

An uncompromising Mogotsi had initially indicated he would endeavour to get the evidence but when pressured by the committee, he changed his mind and loughingly agreed to issue the apology. “I hereby retract my November statement in which I accused the King and Mkhwanazi of being active CIA spies and also unreservedly apologise to them for my unsubstantiated claims,” Mogotsi told the committee.

He had been pressured by MK Party member of the committee David Mandla Skhosana during cross examination, who accused Mogotsi of having caused severe distress and problems within the royal family and AmaZulu nation. Mogotsi was equally berated by EFF leader and parliamentarian Julius Malema for baselessly accusing the King and Mkhwanazi  of being CIA spies.

Mogotsi, who claimed to be an undercover crime fighting operative of the SAPS with two handlers, was accused of aiding and abetting the criminal activities of alleged Big Five criminal cartel mastermind Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, whom he had claimed he was investigating.

“How do you claim that you were investigating Matlala when you were in actual fact assisting him [Matlala] to infiltrate [Police Minister Senzo] Mchunu and other senior SAPS generals through a so-called meet and greet meeting which was nothing but an attempt to connect Matlala to the minister and his generals,” Skhosana said.

Mogotsi was also read a list of his convictions which included murder and motor vehicle theft and others, to which he admitted but claimed the motor vehicle theft one related to a car he had taken from the owner in lieu of monies owed.