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Original Post Date: 2008-03-16 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The ANC top brass, in an effort to make sure the Scorpions are disbanded, in line with resolutions passed at the party’s Polokwane conference, is mustering opponents of the elite crime-fighting unit, determined that they will hold sway at parliamentary public hearings on the Scorpions’ future.
The Sunday Independent understands that the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) will debate the plan for a rallying of anti-Scorpions forces on Sunday.
The NEC meeting will also finalise the issue of its second most powerful leader, Kgalema Motlanthe, the party deputy president, joining the government. The ANC’s national working committee – the party’s equivalent to the cabinet – recently instructed Jacob Zuma, the party’s president, to tell President Thabo Mbeki that Motlanthe should be “deployed” to the executive.
It is expected that Motlanthe will be given one of three vacant seats in parliament in the next two weeks to give him legislative experience and prepare him for higher office.
At a recent meeting of the party’s national working committee it was agreed that the ANC would make sure that people sympathetic to the party’s resolution to chop the Scorpions would dominate the parliamentary public hearings.
A list of “sympathetic” individuals is to be compiled and the names on it sent to Gwede Mantashe, the party’s secretary-general.
“The [working committee] agreed that, for the purpose of public hearings, it would be necessary to assemble a group of people who are sympathetic to our cause and understand the basis of the Polokwane resolution on the [Scorpions]. In the meantime, we need to make sure that our communication on the matter is clear and the reasons for the Polokwane resolution are clearly explained,” says the report.
The move by the ANC is likely to further fuel critics’ perceptions that the dissolution of the Scorpions is politically motivated.
The Scorpions are despised and feared by many in the ANC because they are regarded as a political tool used to discredit leaders, most notably Zuma.
A number of members of the executive committee – including Tony Yengeni, the former chief whip, and Ngoako Ramathlodi, the former Limpopo premier – have been, or are being, investigated by the Scorpions.
The Polokwane conference, at which Zuma was elected president of the ANC, resolved that the Scorpions be dissolved and incorporated into the police by June this year. The government has already announced plans to merge the Scorpions with the police’s organised crime unit.
The ANC is keeping a hawk’s eye on the two government departments – safety and security, and justice – that deal with the Scorpions to ensure that the Polokwane resolution is implemented to the letter.
The ministers responsible for the two departments report to the ANC head office at Luthuli House about their progress in preparing legislation on the Scorpions for parliament to consider. The legislation is to be tabled this month.
An ANC subcommittee in parliament has been appointed to ensure that the process runs without any surprises for the ruling party.
Earlier this week, the ANC, backed by its alliance partners, Cosatu and the South African Communist Party, lambasted the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which nominally controls the Scorpions, for questioning the accuracy of a parliamentary watchdog committee’s report that fingered Leonard McCarthy, the Scorpions boss, as the brains behind an “illegal” intelligence document.
The multi-party joint standing committee on intelligence recommended that the executive take action against McCarthy and other senior Scorpions for the production and leaking of the Special Browse Mole Report.
At previous meetings of the national executive committee, it was agreed that there should be a consistent media strategy for dealing with the NPA and the fraud and corruption charges it is pursuing against Zuma.