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ice Minister Penuell Maduna says he will convene the
Ministerial Co-ordinating Committee to investigate allegations that
National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) chief Bulelani
Ngcuka was an apartheid spy.
Briefing the media at Parliament yesterday, he said in view of the
allegations made by City Press newspaper and former transport
minister Mac Maharaj, it was important to get to the bottom of the
issue.
"I work with him (Ngcuka) and then I hear he is a spy. To listen to
my own staff whose name is being bandied about. There is an
allegation that has been made, the committee must do its work,"
Maduna said.
The committee includes Maduna and his intelligence, safety and
security, correctional services, and defence counterparts, as well
as any other Cabinet member nominated by President Thabo
Mbeki.
Ngcuka intends to sue both City Press and Maharaj for
defamation.
The newspaper reported the African National Congress in exile
investigated Ngcuka in the late 1980s to establish whether he was
an apartheid spy.
Maharaj confirmed the allegation during a SABC interview, saying he
had seen the intelligence report himself.
The Cabinet committee was originally intended to iron out any turf
problems between police and justice over the Scorpions' operations,
she said.
But, it was not "inappropriate that it addresses very clear
attempts by parties implicated or related to those implicated in
the (Schabir) Shaik case to discredit the Scorpions and their boss
Ngcuka - as Maduna termed it 'the debilitating noise around the
head of the Scorpions'".
"While this does not seem directly within their legislated mandate
it is high time this matter was dealt with by the ANC government
and finally put to rest.
"The DA believes it is essential that this ministerial committee
meets as soon as possible so that the president or minister Maduna
can report to Parliament without undue delay, and these dirty
attacks on important institutions upholding the Rule of Law and the
administration of justice can once and for all be dealt with
appropriately," Camerer said. – Sapa.
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