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S.Africa: National Intelligence Chief sacked by Mbeki

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Original Post Date: 2006-03-24  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/24/2006
S.Africa: National Intelligence Chief sacked by Mbeki
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S.Africa: National Intelligence Chief sacked by Mbeki

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org


Date & Time Posted: 3/24/2006

S.Africa: National Intelligence Chief sacked by Mbeki

[This seems to be part of the WAR inside the ANC – which it appears to me, the CIA may have started. For more on that see: www.StraightTalk.co.za Jan]

President Thabo Mbeki fired his national intelligence chief on Wednesday, citing a breakdown in trust amid a power struggle at the top of the ruling African National Congress.

Word of the dismissal of Billy Lesedi Masetlha, who was already suspended, came in a statement from the cabinet after its fortnightly meeting.

“This decision derives from the president’s determination that the relationship of trust between him and the head of NIA had irreparably broken down,” the statement said.

Masetlha and other top intelligence officials were suspended in October last year over a decision to put politician-turned-businessman Saki Macozoma, a Mbeki ally, under surveillance.

Masetlha was fighting the suspension and was quoted by the City Press newspaper this week as accusing Mbeki of lying and colluding with Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils over his suspension.

The ANC is beset by serious rifts over Mbeki’s sacking in June last year of his popular deputy Jacob Zuma, who now faces charges of corruption.

Zuma remains deputy leader of the party and retains vocal backing from many grassroots supporters as well as its labour and communist allies.

He and his supporters say the charges stem from a political conspiracy by a camp backing Mbeki – seen as more pro-market and less populist than Zuma’s labour allies – to stop him succeeding Mbeki in 2009.

Masetlha was also at odds with his intelligence minister Kasrils over the jurisdiction of elite crime fighting unit the Scorpions, saying it was compromising national security.

The cabinet statement also said an investigation had found that emails and Internet chatroom conversations apparently implicating top ANC officials in a plot to discredit Zuma were a hoax.

“The meeting noted the findings of the Inspector-General that these emails were fabricated mock-ups that were not and could not have been communicated over the world-wide web,” it said.

Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click…/p>


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