‘You can be the white Brown Mogotsi’: MPs accuse Paul O’Sullivan of not being truthful

Paul O’Sullivan testifies before Parliament’s ad hoc committee at the Good Hope Chamber in Cape Town on 10 February 2026. Picture: Gallo Images / Brenton Geach Fraud investigator Paul O’Sullivan has firmly denied allegations that he is an information peddler as he faced intense questioning from members of Parliament’s ad hoc committee. O’Sullivan returned to the Good Hope Chamber in Cape Town on Wednesday for a second day of testimony before the committee, which is probing alleged corruption, criminal infiltration and political interference within South Africa’s justice system.

The hearing turned confrontational when ANC MP Xola Nqola asked O’Sullivan whether he could be considered a “habitual liar”, a “name dropper” or an “information peddler”. Nqola referenced a podcast in which former police commissioner George Fivaz had allegedly called O’Sullivan a liar. MK party MP Vusi Shongwe then questioned O’Sullivan about his allegations that some MPs received confidential information from Crime Intelligence officials.

Shongwe pointed out that O’Sullivan himself claimed to get information from a reliable source within Crime Intelligence and asked if this wasn’t the same thing he was accusing MPs of. “You can be the white Brown Mogotsi,” Shongwe remarked, drawing a comparison between O’Sullivan and alleged political fixer Oupa ‘Brown’ Mogotsi, who claims to be an undercover operative for Crime Intelligence. O’Sullivan was also questioned about a braai linked to Czech organised crime figure Radovan Krejčíř, which Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s chief of staff, Cedric Nkabinde, said was the setting for a plot against former acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane. O’Sullivan described the gathering as “an informal braai that lasted two hours”, attended by former Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) head Robert McBride, suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya and several other officials.