Overview
- Brown Mogotsi, who appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, will seek bail on 25 May after the court granted the state time to verify an out‑of‑province address.
- He faces charges including defeating the ends of justice, perjury, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, and discharging a firearm in a municipal area, which he denies as his lawyer disputes any firearm possession.
- Police say ballistic tests link casings from the Vosloorus scene to a 2020 Roodepoort armed robbery and a 2021 Eldorado Park shooting, though they are not linking Mogotsi to those crimes.
- The firearm itself remains missing, so investigators want the supplier’s name to trace its path across cases.
- The magistrate granted a seven‑day postponement for interprovincial address checks after prosecutors said the defence submitted a North West address late.