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The
Democratic Alliance has welcomed Judge Joos Hefer's decision to
subpoena the country's intelligence agencies.
DA justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer said in a statement
yesterday that Hefer should subpoena any witnesses he needed,
including Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
She said the onus was on the security agencies to help Hefer's
commission with whatever relevant information they had in their
possession, and not on the commission to motivate the release of
such information.
"It is high time these agencies stopped throwing up smoke screens
and came to the party; President (Thabo) Mbeki should see that they
do," she said.
Earlier yesterday, commission secretary John Bacon said the heads
of the various agencies would be summoned to testify before the
commission.
The subpoenas would also force them to submit all relevant
documents in their possession to aid the commission's
investigation.
The agencies involved were the intelligence units of the
departments of defence, and of safety and security, as well as the
National Intelligence Agency and the SA Security Service.
Hefer's decision follows a hard-line stance taken last week by the
intelligence community in response to the commission's request for
documentary evidence.
The commission needs the intelligence documents to help either
prove or disprove allegations that national director of public
prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, was an apartheid spy. – Sapa.
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