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Maharaj and Mo Shaik have denied that they believe national
director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was apartheid agent
RS452, the Hefer Commission heard yesterday.
Commission evidence leader Kessie Naidu told Judge Joos Hefer that
his secretariat contacted the two men's representative, Yunis
Shaik, this week.
This followed a reported confession by former Eastern Cape human
rights lawyer Vanessa Brereton, now living in London, that she had
in fact been apartheid era spy RS452.
The commission consequently wanted to establish whether Maharaj and
Shaik believed that Ngcuka had been agent RS452, Naidu said.
"That is not their contention," Yunis Shaik responded when
asked.
This was despite Maharaj and Shaik appearing recently in television
interviews to confirm a newspaper report that Ngcuka was the most
likely agent RS452.
It was one of the main allegations the Hefer Commission was set up
to investigate.
Ngcuka's advocate Marumo Moerane reacted by asking the commission
to re-establish the factual allegations against his client.
He demanded that Maharaj and Shaik provide the commission with
documentary evidence to back up their claims.
Naidu said the two men were asked in a letter going out yesterday
to provide preliminary statements as well as all documentary
evidence in their possession.
Their opening submissions before the commission were postponed last
week to November 17.
They requested the postponement so that a large number of
apartheid-era intelligence files could first be scoured to support
their testimony. – Sapa.
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