Marleen Smith

Liberation struggle veteran Mac Maharaj was asked on Tuesday to react to an allegation that he himself had been an apartheid agent. The former transport minister was shown a book during his cross-examination before the Hefer commission, in which he is accused of having been an apartheid government agent.
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=23710">’Mo Shaik fingered Ngcuka'</a>

National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s main accusers, Mac Maharaj and Mo Shaik, were again absent from the Hefer commission’s public hearings on Thursday. Their absence on Thursday again robbed them of the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses who made allegations against them.
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=22455">Former activists testify before Hefer</a>

A former comrade-in-arms of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka became the Hefer commission’s first witness to testify publicly. Ngcuka reportedly spent many years in prison for refusing to testify against fellow African National Congress member Patrick Ntobeko ("Ntobs") Maqubela, nowadays a lawyer.
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National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Sipho Ngwema has accused African National Congress veteran Mac Maharaj and foreign affairs adviser Mo Shaik of delaying tactics. The first public hearing of the Hefer commission, appointed to investigate Ngwema’s boss, Bulelani Ngcuka, was adjourned on Wednesday within its first 15 minutes.
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