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Former activists to testify before Hefer today

23rd October 2003

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Two former anti-apartheid activists are to testify before the Hefer Commission today during its fourth day of public hearings in Bloemfontein.

Commission secretary John Bacon said Letha Jolobe and Advocate Glenn Goosen would be called to the stand.

Jolobe was among a group including national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka who were arrested in 1981 by the security police.

Jolobe and Ngcuka were among those who were jailed for refusing to testify against three of their comrades-in-arms during a treason trial.

Goosen was among a group of white Eastern Cape activists on whom confessed apartheid spy Vanessa Brereton reported to the authorities.

Bacon said the hearings would continue tomorrow, when they planned to call other members of Ngcuka and Jolobe's group.

Also tomorrow, advocate George Bizos SC is scheduled to make a submission to the commission on behalf of the country's intelligence agencies.

The commission has requested a wide range of apartheid-era intelligence files from the agencies. However, in discussions they reportedly indicated that they could not provide these as it would compromise their intelligence gathering.

The commission was set up to investigate allegations that Ngcuka was an apartheid-era government spy.

Its terms of reference were later extended to include an investigation into whether he had abused the National Prosecuting Authority.

The extended terms include Ngcuka's political head, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna. – Sapa.
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