An alleged assassination plot by the African National Congress (ANC) against the man behind the hoax email saga, Muziwendoda Kunene, is a ”completely conjured up story”, the ruling party said on Wednesday.
”It is a completely conjured up story… the ANC has nothing to do with him, he has nothing to do with the ANC and he is not a member of the ANC and he is not part of any ANC structures,” said the party’s head of the presidency, Smuts Ngonyama.
He was responding to a 702 report in which Kunene claimed that there was a plot to assassinate him before the party’s national conference in Polokwane in December.
The report said that powerful individuals in the party were trying to silence Kunene.
He told 702 that while working for the National Intelligence Agency, he came across information linking senior politicians to corruption and bribery. He said this had led him to believe that there was a plot to kill him.
He said he was under constant surveillance and that his recent hijacking was proof that he was being targeted.
Kunene, an IT specialist, stands accused under the Intelligence Services Oversight Act of withholding information from the Inspector General of Intelligence by failing or refusing to provide a response on questions put to him.
The saga involves fake emails between ANC leaders, discrediting ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma.
The emails allegedly implicated senior ANC members in a conspiracy against Zuma and ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe. – Sapa