Special Report Transcript Episode 38, Section 6, Time 16:45

Could there possibly be ANC cabinet ministers and senior government officials who spied on their comrades for the apartheid police? The claim was first made during Jacques Hechter’s evidence and then amplified by his legal counsel, Roelof du Plessis. // There are people in the current government, in current government structures, high profile people in the current government structures who were informers of the security police at that time. // Judge Hassen Mall ruled that the names should not be made public. Deputy President Thabo Mbeki immediately demanded that the ruling be overturned. On Friday Mamasela dropped a bombshell in an interview with a weekly paper ‘New Nation.’ He said five senior ANC ministers were on the Vlakplaas payroll between 1981 and 1993. He was their pay master and they were even flown in by military helicopters to Vlakplaas to be paid and debriefed. Mamasela said he would help the Truth Commission and the ANC in revealing the names. The ANC says it wants all spies to be exposed.

Notes: Max du Preez; Roelof du Plessis; Max du Preez

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