The National Intelligence Agency became embroiled in a rogue investigation involving the illegal interception of the communications of more than 13 highly placed individuals, an investigation by the inspector general (IG) of intelligence has found. The report was released in edited form on Thursday.
The signature of African National Congress presidency head Smuts Ngonyama on a 2001 friendship pact with Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party — beneath that of Oilgate’s Sandi Majali — cements evidence that South Africa’s ruling party backed Majali’s pledges of political support to the embattled Iraqi regime.
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/ 27 February 2006
Michael Donen, the advocate heading the commission that will investigate South African abuse of the Iraq Oil for Food Programme, has shrugged off a charge that he will not be independent. Recently, Democratic Alliance justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer demanded that President Thabo Mbeki replace Donen.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Donen commission, appointed by President Thabo Mbeki to probe abuse of the Iraq oil-for-food programme, will not investigate political bribery first reported by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. The Presidency announced the commission, led by senior counsel Michael Donen, last Friday.
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/ 3 February 2006
Sandi Majali’s controversial R65 000 loan for the renovation of Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya’s home was made only four weeks after a consortium, IT Lynx — of which he was a part — demanded that Skweyiya award it a stalled R400‑million tender. This new evidence casts doubt on Majali’s earlier excuse that he had no motive to try to bribe Skweyiya.
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/ 20 January 2006
The Presidency has slammed the door on further questions about Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s trip to the United Arab Emirates.
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/ 15 December 2005
The ”e-mails” currently being investigated by the Inspector General of Intelligence, Zolile Ngcakani, purport to provide evidence for a grand unified conspiracy theory of the succession battle in the African National Congress. These documents, however, show clear signs of being faked, including dubious e-mail addresses and demonstrably false content.
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/ 15 December 2005
The so-called "hoax e-mails" have emerged as a central focus of the struggle going on at the highest levels of the National Intelligence Agency and the African National Congress. The exchanges essentially purport to illustrate a political conspiracy led by a Xhosa cabal, assisted by white reactionaries in the Scorpions, media and opposition.
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/ 9 December 2005
The government has yet to decide how to handle the fallout from the United Nations inquiry into the world body’s controversial Iraqi "oil-for-food" programme.
The report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee, released in October, points fingers at thousands of companies for having allegedly flouted provisions of UN sanctions against the government of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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/ 18 November 2005
Intrigue at the highest level of the government, including an extraordinary political ambush and counter-ambush, has been disclosed in court documents lodged by suspended National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha. Masetlha is attempting a high court challenge to his axing last month by Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils.