FRIDAY, 8.30AM
ANC martyr Chris Hani allegedly ordered his men to kill an ANC official he suspected of being a police agent, the truth comission heard on Thursday. Brothers Joe and Conrad Nkuna, both ANC members, jailed in 1995 for the attempted murder of ANC official Johannes Shabangu, are applying for amnesty on the grounds that the murder was a “political act”
The commission was told that during 1992, there was bitter faction fighting between ANC members in he Nelspruit area. Joe Nkuna was beaten so severely by a gang of masked men that he was in a coma for seven days and partially paralysed. He was told later that Shabangu, working along with the police, had been responsible. He reported this to Hani, who later gave a direct order that Shabangu — among other ‘enemy agents” — be killed.
Nkuna arranged for his brother and two other MK guerrillas to attack Shabangu’s house. They threw two hand grenades at it, injuring six people — but not Shabangu.
The SACP on Friday dismissed Nkuna’s claims as “the wild inventions of someone desperately trying to be released from a nine-year prison sentence”.