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Deputy President Jacob Zuma and former intelligence minister
Joe Nhlanhla to the witness box, Mo Shaik advised the Hefer
Commission yesterday.
This appeared to be a desperate attempt to secure authoritative
confirmation of his spy claim against national director of public
prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
Shaik explained that Zuma and Nhlanhla were his apartheid-era
superiors within the African National Congress' intelligence
structures.
They had first-hand knowledge of a 1989 ANC investigation into spy
suspicions against Ngcuka.
Shaik concluded at the time that Ngcuka was "most probably" an
agent for the apartheid government, the commission heard this week.
He reported this to Zuma and Nhlanhla.
Shaik further testified yesterday that he did not know how Zuma and
Nhlanhla dealth with the report on Ngcuka. He was also unable to
find the original report that he had sent them.
Earlier yesterday, Shaik suggested that no one was coming forward
to support his claim out of fear for retaliation by the National
Prosecuting Authority, headed by Ngcuka.
He accused the NPA of "undermining the democracy we all hold so
dear".
Ngcuka broke the rule of law by persecuting certain people and not
others, he added.
"We live in terrible times. Times of fear and cruelty," Shaik said,
referring to Ngcuka's alleged abuse of power.
The former intelligence operative conceded that he could have been
wrong when he concluded that Ngcuka was most probably a spy.
If credible evidence was provided to the commission to prove him
wrong, he would accept it, Shaik said.
Commissioner Joos Hefer adjourned the hearing until 9am Monday,
when counsel for Ngcuka, Advocate Marumo Moerane, will continue
cross-examining Shaik. – Sapa.
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