/ 25 March 1999

CALL FOR POWELL PROBE

THE African National Congress has called for a commission of inquiry into Inkatha Freedom Party politician and member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature Philip Powell, following his alleged interference with a police murder investigation. Powell, often accused of involvement in gun-running and hit squads in the violent province, allegedly tried to interfere with a police investigation into the February murder of Pomeroy farmer Jan van Zyl.