Madlanga commission evidence leader confirms meeting with Mogotsi’s alleged ‘handler’

Madlanga commission’s chief evidence leader has confirmed that he has met and even interviewed a man that Brown Mogotsi alleged to be his handler.“In fairness to Mr Mogotsi, we did interview in hospital a man describing himself as Mr Mogotsi’s handler, with the name that was shown to you [commissioners],” Matthew Chaskalson said on Thursday.“He did confirm that he has been running Mr Mogotsi as an agent. There are questions that we want to ask that man, but we are waiting for him to recover,” he said.In the testimony before commission, Mogotsi stated that he was a police agents. He said that an agency acts as a mediator between police officers known as handlers and informants.Mogotsi testified previously that in 2023, his handler tasked him with investigating the allegations that Zulu king Misizulu kaZwelithini as well as KwaZulu Natal provincial commissioner Lt. Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwana
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