Zuma Says ANC, Not The Courts, Must Examine His Claim That Hanekom Was An Apartheid-Era Spy

Riyaz Patel

Jacob Zuma says Derek Hanekom’s defamation case against him, instituted after Zuma tweeted that Hanekom was a “known enemy agent,” is an ANC matter and not a legal one, Business Day reports.

ANC veteran and NEC member Hanekom is suing the former president for R500 000, saying Zuma’s spy claim is without evidence and “highly defamatory.”

Zuma filed papers in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban Wednesday in which he reportedly said: “Hanekom’s anxiety about his professed role in the anti-apartheid struggle, whether or not this role was duplicitous and whether he was an apartheid plant within ANC structures, is misplaced in these proceedings.”

Zuma then states that “it is a matter best left to the African National Congress and how it seeks to deal with those within its ranks that may have sold out their own comrades. It is also a matter best left to Hanekom’s own