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Original Post Date: 2007-02-22 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Coup plot: Court hears of Mugabe, Spain and Seals
Pretoria, South Africa
19 February 2007 04:48
The office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, former Spanish President Jos(233)é Mar(237)ía Aznar and the United States Navy Seals all had some connection to the alleged attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Monday.
State witness Ivan Pienaar, who helped with aeronautical logistics for the coup, told the court how he flew Simon Mann — alleged mastermind of the coup — to Zimbabwe a day before Mann and others were arrested in Harare, allegedly on their way to Equatorial Guinea.
After struggling to get a flight plan approved for his return flight to South Africa, he was told to stay put by the control tower at the international airport in Harare because clearance from President Robert Mugabe’s office was needed for his plane to leave.
“It was not normal to get presidential clearance for a flight,” Pienaar told the court.
He said this was the second time that he flew Mann to Harare and had to wait on the runway for presidential clearance before returning to South Africa.
Pienaar told the court that this had concerned him and that he phoned Mann to tell him that everything might not have been as Mann had hoped in Zimbabwe.
However, the plane with 60 men from South Africa, allegedly destined for Equatorial Guinea, left South Africa the next day and landed at Harare, where they were allegedly supposed to pick up weapons provided by Zimbabwe’s Defence Industries.
They were, however, arrested and spent more than a year in a Zimbabwean prison for violating that country’s immigration, aviation, firearms and security laws before returning to South Africa.
Pienaar was testifying against eight of those men, namely Raymond Stanley Archer, Victor Dracula, Louis du Preez, Errol Harris, Mazanga Kashama, Neves Tomas Matias, Simon Morris Witherspoon and Hendrick Jacobus Hamman, who are facing charges of contravening sections of the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act in the Pretoria court.
Except for Mugabe, Pienaar also told the court that Mann had put everyone under pressure to get the coup done before March 14 2004, when the Spanish election was to take place
“It was so that the Spanish prime minister could sanction the new Equatorial Guinea president before he had to leave office,” Pienaar told the court.
Exiled opposition politician Severo Moto was to take over the reigns of the East African country after long-time ruler President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was overthrown and flown out of the country on March 7 2004.
Pienaar told the court that apart from the men from South Africa, they were told that a team of the Special Forces of the United States Navy, the Seals, were also on standby “to go in”.
Like several other state witnesses, Pienaar said he was under the impression that the South African government approved the mission. He added that the US, British and Spanish governments also allegedly gave their approval for the coup. — Sapa
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