“TOP SECRET: Dodgy ANC Nasrec 'cash-for-votes' investigation stalled once more”at https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/investigations/top-secret-dodgy-anc-nasrec-cash-for-votes-investigation-stalled-once-more-20210217 states;
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One month after a judge ordered that documents linked to a string of police contracts, probed by IPID, be declassified, the information remains secret.
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Police commissioner General Khehla Sitole was ordered to take “immediate steps’ to facilitate this but has now blamed IPID for the delay.
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The top cop fought the declassification in court for three years, costing the taxpayer R1.5 million.
A trove of classified documents – the paper trail behind the slew of dubious police contracts, including those centred on allegations of a state-funded “plot” to swing the outcome of the ANC’s Nasrec elective conference – remain a closely guarded secret.
This nearly a month after the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled that police commissioner General Khehla Sitole must take “immediate steps’ to strip away their secret status – and hand them over to police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
In a tersely worded letter sent to Sitole on Friday, Police Minister Bheki Cele wanted to know how the damning ruling impacted the police, how Sitole and his deputies “were involved” in a string of dubious deal now under investigation, and what cost was borne by the taxpayer after their three-uear legal quest to keep the details secret.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, when asked for comment, told News24: “As indicated in my previuos response to yourself, any communication or correspondence between the offices of the National Commissioner and the Minister shall remain between them and not be discussed in the public domain. That being said, it is rather unfortunate that any document between the two mentioned offices would be leaked to the media and what the intention thereof would be.”
Take note;“Shock claims about Nasrec cash for votes”dated Aug 22, 2019 https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/shock-claims-about-nasrec-cash-for-votes-31091833 states;
Durban - Former KwaZulu-Natal legislature deputy speaker Meshack Radebe has revealed how he allegedly witnessed ANC leaders dishing out cash in exchange for votes at the party’s Nasrec elective conference in 2017.
The veteran said what he witnessed made him realise that his party was taking a wrong direction, and he decided to quit the government.
“When I returned from Nasrec, I said I am resigning, because what I saw there I could not stomach; but the leadership, including Nxamalala (former president Jacob Zuma) pleaded with me not to leave until after the elections,” he said.
He was reacting to allegations that leaders used money to win support at the Nasrec conference, where President Cyril Ramaphosa won his contest with Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to replace Zuma as ANC president.
“In the hotel where I was staying (in Johannesburg) the cash was given out at the foyer. Delegates would come in buses to collect cash.
"One of the leaders who was giving out money is now a minister. Delegates were each counting R5000, R3000, R4000. Others were complaining that the money they had received was not enough,” said Radebe.