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Original Post Date: 2007-03-19 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Moshoeshoe Monare
Most of the members of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) have rejected an internal report on hoax emails that tacitly contradicts a government investigation.
ANC veteran James Stuart, also known as Hermanus Loots, tabled his internally commissioned report at an NEC meeting in Kempton Park on Friday.
There have been months of hearings about the hoax emails at which most of the ANC’s leaders gave evidence. The investigation into the hoax has divided the ruling party.
Stuart’s report, which was read by most of the members of the NEC – the most powerful ANC structure between national conferences – but not officially circulated, sparked fierce debate among, and condemnation by, most of the NEC’s members. They include Joel Netshitenzhe, the government policy guru, Ronnie Kasrils, the intelligence minister, and businessman Saki Macozoma.
The ANC said on Saturday: “There was nothing in the [Stuart] report that persuaded the NEC to depart from its earlier resolutions on this matter, including, among others, that none of its members was involved in the production of these emails, and its expression of confidence in the office of the inspector-general of intelligence.
“Noting the limitations in the technical capacity of the task team and some flaws in its approach, the conclusions of the report were not accepted.
“Arising from the above, the report was not adopted by the meeting. It therefore has no standing within the structures of the movement. The NEC considers these matters as closed.”
The e-mails surfaced in 2005 and were purported to have been written by senior ANC and government officials – including Netshitenzhe, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the deputy president, and Macozoma – who were allegedly plotting to influence the party’s choice of a successor to president Thabo Mbeki by discrediting Jacob Zuma, its deputy president, and Kgalema Motlanthe, its secretary-general.
Although a report by Zolile Ngcakani, the inspector-general of intelligence – which was endorsed by Mbeki, the cabinet and the security directors-general – declared the emails to be fakes, Motlanthe insisted on a parallel internal ANC investigation led by Stuart.
But most of the NEC’s members, said to be backers of Mbeki in the battle for control of the ANC, criticised Stuart’s investigation and tried to discredit its legitimacy.
It is believed that Mbeki was the first to question the legality of the Stuart report, given the pending court cases related to the e-mails, which involve Billy Masetlha, the former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency.
Masetlha was fired for running an illegal political intelligence project. He was blamed for fabricating the e-mails, for authorising the unlawful surveillance of Macozoma and for meddling in party politics.
He is facing criminal charges, but will challenge his dismissal in the constitutional court.
Stuart was unable to conclude that Masetlha had a part in the fabrication of the incriminating emails.
Stuart indirectly contradicted Ngcakani’s report by saying that he could neither confirm nor reject the authenticity of the e-mails because he did not have the power to subpoena, search, seize or cross-examine witnesses.
This is in sharp contrast to Ngcakani’s and Kasrils’ dismissal of the e-mails as fake even before the inspector-general began his investigation.
Ngcakani’s investigative procedure was questioned by parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence.
Stuart said that the people the e-mails appeared to implicate in a plot to manipulate the presidential succession should be treated as the victims of a smear campaign, unless it could be proved that they wrote the emails.
But a few NEC members – sympathetic to Zuma and Motlanthe – defended the Stuart report and said that its recommendations should be seriously considered.