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News24, 13/05/2006 17:25 - (SA)
='Ngcuka uses lies and deception'=

Johannesburg - Former national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) [|Bulelani Ngcuka] used lies and deception to advance his agenda, said the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Saturday.

League spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said: "Ngcuka should rather tell the nation the truth that he is bitter because the ANCYL suggested he was a spy during the spy saga, and he will stop at nothing to get back at us."

Ngcuka threatened legal action against ANCYL leader [|Fikile Mbalula] on Friday, after insinuations by Mbalula that Ngcuka had a hand in the laying of a rape charge against former deputy president [|Jacob Zuma].

On Thursday, Mbalula said the ANCYL believed Zuma's accuser was bribed to lay the charge against him.

Mbalula said: "The ANCYL will further probe and satisfy itself about rumours that she (the rape accuser) was paid or bribed. In this context, we must probe whether there was no evil hand led by people such as malume (Uncle) Ronnie and malume Ngcuka."

Ngcuka said Mbalula was saying this because the NDPP had investigated the league's sponsor, Brett Kebble, a few years ago.

Kodwa said the off-the-record briefings Ngcuka held with editors of key national newspapers were still very fresh in their minds: "This lends credence to our assertion that he (Ngcuka) has been an instrumental element of a plot to deal Zuma a debilitating political blow."

He said the links between these activities and Zuma's upcoming corruption trial were "unmistakable".


 * From: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1932367,00.html**

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