{"id":910669,"date":"2026-06-05T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/mogotsi-seeks-chaskalsons-recusal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:14:25","slug":"mogotsi-seeks-chaskalsons-recusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/mogotsi-seeks-chaskalsons-recusal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogotsi seeks Chaskalson&#8217;s recusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Brown Mogotsi wants the Madlanga Commission, evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC, to recuse himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mogotsi has filed a complaint against Chaskalson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Commission chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga ordered that Mogotsi&#8217;s legal team should file the recusal application no later than the end of business day on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>WATCH | <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/watch-brown-mogotsi-no-show-madlanga-commission\"><span><strong>Brown Mogotsi no-show at Madlanga Commission<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Chaskalson says he will respond to the application on 6 May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mogotsi&#8217;s legal team will then file a replying affidavit on 11 May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mogotsi is then expected to be back at the commission on 15 May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s believed\u00a0\u00a0Suliman\u00a0\u00a0Carrim might not appear this week at the commission, saying he is not fit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>DEVELOPING: Brown Mogotsi intends to bring an application to have evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson recuse himself.<\/p>\n<p>Madlanga says the application should be filed not later than midday tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mogotsi is represented by Mr Makaula Sekgatja. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MadlangaCommission?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MadlangaCommission<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eNCA?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eNCA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifMG5i53YF\">https:\/\/t.co\/ifMG5i53YF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Pule Letshwiti-Jones (@pule_jones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pule_jones\/status\/2049121010683642344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>DEVELOPING: Brown Mogotsi intends to bring an application to have evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson recuse himself.<\/p>\n<p>Madlanga says the application should be filed not later than midday tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mogotsi is represented by Mr Makaula Sekgatja. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MadlangaCommission?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MadlangaCommission<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eNCA?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eNCA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifMG5i53YF\">https:\/\/t.co\/ifMG5i53YF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Pule Letshwiti-Jones (@pule_jones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pule_jones\/status\/2049121010683642344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/mogotsi-seeks-chaskalsons-recusal\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Brown Mogotsi wants the Madlanga Commission, evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC, to recuse himself.\u00a0 Mogotsi has filed a complaint against Chaskalson. Commission chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga ordered that Mogotsi&#8217;s legal team should file the recusal application no later than the end of business day on Wednesday. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150014,1720],"tags":[150013,10097],"class_list":["post-910669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mogotsi","category-seeks","tag-mogotsi","tag-seeks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}