Zo, een belangrijk ingredient voor het afbranden van het huidige regime in nu eindelijk wat meer naar buiten gekomen, met namen en rugnummers en al. Die duitse fregatjes waar ze noch de kennis noch 't geld hebben om ze te onderhouden ( ik noem bijv. een APAR upgrade ) zijn toendertijd aangekocht na betaling van wat fijn vaut geld.

Een aantal jaar terug kan ik me al herinneren dat er iets geroepen werdt over dit verhaal en dat het daadwerkelijk de impact kan maken wat niet alleen gezichtsverlies betekend voor de toenmalige regering ( incl. Zuma ) mocht de waarheid uiteindelijk naar buiten komen. Zuma's rechtsspan maakt op deze manier de olievlek op dit moment alleen maar groter.

Dit is beter van die Laan.

Aryan

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http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-20-what-zuma-told-the-npa

What Zuma told the NPA

NIC DAWES, SAM SOLE, STEFAANS BRUMMER AND ADRIAAN BASSON - Mar 20 2009 07:07

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Jacob Zuma’s legal team has given acting prosecutions boss Mokotedi Mpshe what it believes are two strong reasons for dropping charges against the ANC president, both involving fresh “evidence” of wrongdoing by former president Thabo Mbeki.

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) chief Mpshe is under intense pressure to drop the charges, but has not reached a decision.

On Tuesday a premature leak that charges would be dropped was circulated among Zuma supporters by SMS and on Wednesday it was carried on the front pages of several newspapers as a fait accompli.

The NPA said in a statement it had “recently been supplied with additional information by Zuma’s lawyers which has necessitated further investigation, verification and careful consideration”.

No further details were released, but the Mail & Guardian has established that the two principal strands of evidence put before Mpshe concern:

* Mbeki’s role in the 1999 arms deal and new details of his alleged involvement in impropriety in the awarding of contracts for new defence equipment.

* Claims that Mbeki influenced the Scorpions’ controversial “Special Browse Mole” report, which raised concerns about funding and support for Zuma from Libya and Angola as well as the possibility of violent resistance to his prosecution.

Six people with differing views on the case, who have been briefed on Zuma’s representations to Mpshe or seen them personally, independently confirmed this outline.

A legal source with access to the Zuma camp outlined the arms deal component of the representations as a strategy “to discredit lots of people … how much others got . I think they have real information”.

Mbeki has faced repeated claims that he interfered in the allocation of contracts for frigates and submarines built by German consortia. The M&G revealed last year that information passed to risk consultancy Kroll by former National Intelligence Agency official Paul Madaka suggested Mbeki personally facilitated a large kickback. Madaka has since died and Mbeki has consistently denied impropriety.

The legal source confirmed that Mbeki was the main target of Zuma’s representations, although he did not know if the allegations were true. “It was very strong, very virulent; a full-out attack.”

Others put it similarly: a Zuma strategist said the representations “spilled the beans regarding other characters and specifically with reference to Mbeki”.