DAYS OF ZONDO OP-ED: Zuma’s spy claims are implausible, paranoid, and a red herring

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DAYS OF ZONDO OP-ED: Zuma’s spy claims are implausible, paranoid, and a red herring By Nel Marais

that the identity of former sources/agents should be divulged as part of a “truth and reconciliation process”, in order to prevent this kind of situation, where names are made known selectively and for political reasons).MK commander Cyril Raymond came under suspicion within the ANC and was detained and interrogated in the 1980s. Under questioning, he reportedly confessed to being a police spy and subsequently died in ANC custody.

General Siphiwe Nyanda was appointed MK chief of staff in 1992, served as chief of the South African National Defence Force from 1998 to 2005, as minister of Communications from 2009 to 2010 and was appointed as a board member of Denel in May 2018. In 2017 he labelled Zuma as a “faction leader’’ who was dividing the ruling party and former MK combatants.

He might make further revelations, depending on his assessment of the evolvement/direction of the commission and his own questioning. The commission’s chair and its However, for us, the main weakness of Zuma’s account is the question of why such an elaborate conspiracy, stretching over nearly three decades, would have been necessary. According to Zuma, the plot to discredit him was hatched because he knew the identity of “apartheid’s spies’’ and that the handlers of these spies wanted them to remain powerful within a future government.

 

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