Ex-cabinet minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi was recruited by the apartheid government to become a spy while he was a student in Lesotho, former president JacobZuma told the StateCaptureInquiry.
Johannesburg - Ex-cabinet minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi was recruited by the apartheid government to become a spy while he was a student in Lesotho, former president Jacob Zuma told the state capture inquiry on Monday.
Zuma lambasted Ramatlhodi's testimony against him and labelled allegations that he auctioned the country to the fugitive Gupta family as lies. Zuma then turned to what he called plots to assassinate him. He told the commission about spies who were doing the "dirty work" of their handlers, singling out a spy named Ralph, who was also known as "Fear" and who operated in Swaziland.
Turning to the Gupta family, whom it is alleged he did political favours for, Zuma maintained they were friends and business people he came to know after he became president. He said he was first introduced to the Gupta family by Essop Pahad, the former minister in presidency during Thabo Mbeki's administration.
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