Who was THAMI ZULU? Who poisoned him? Was Peter Mokaba a Spy? Who were Spies? TRC ANC Exile Prisons

TZ Muziwakhe Ngwenya, who grew up in Soweto and was then in his mid-thirties. He is better known by his pseudonym or exile 'travelling name* of Thami Zulu, or TZ. Throughout the report he is referred to as TZ. I will refer to him as Zulu, or Thami Zulu. The commission's report will be referred to either as the Thami Zulu report or as the Sachs report, since Sachs chaired the inquiry.2 Like certain other essential details, Zulu's date of birth and age at death are not recorded in the report. Nor are the precise date and and time of his death, a bizarre omission from an inquiry of this kind. Eighteen months after presentation of the commission report, an article in the Johannesburg Weekly Mail by Phillip van Niekerk gave his year of birth as 1954. An article on the same day in the London Guardian by its South African correspondent, David Beresford — clearly coordinated with the article in the Weekly Mail, and carrying similar but not identical material — gave his date of death as 16 November 1989.3 No ordinary police inquiry would have omitted such details. The death of Zulu resulted in so much dissatisfaction within the ANC that it could not be hushed up. This was a major, but not the sole, reason for the relatively extensive inquiry by the ANC that followed. The report leads into the labyrinthine world of secret military operations, counter-operations and counter-counter operations in the contest between the ANC and the South African state during the 1980s, a world familiar — in another con tinent — from the fiction of John le Carre. Zulu came from 'a well-educated and relatively comfortable home in Soweto'. (p 8) His mother, Mrs Emily Ngwenya, was a primary school head teacher. (Sunday Times, London, 4 March 1990) His father was also a head teacher. They were sufficiently well-off to send him for most of his secondary level education to Waterford, a fee-paying boarding school in Swaziland modelled on the English public school system. He thus escaped the worst effects of Bantu Education in South Africa. In the words of the report, his life experience as a youth was 'different from that of most of the persons' in Umkhonto. His immediate family are members of the developing black raid die class in South Africa, which has most to benefit from the current political changes. Following his death in Lusaka, these were not people to be kept quiet with sinister allegations or threats, or who had only limited access to the means of public discussiont. Zulu was a person of stature in the exile. A witness to the inquiry stated that Zulu was 'always used to being in command and never to being commanded'. He gave himself'the airs of a Napoleon'. After abandoning his studies at the University of Botswana to join Umkhonto in 1975, he was ap pointed leader of a batch of young exiles who left Swaziland for Tanzania fo #mkparty MK #africannationalcongress #anc #economicfreedomfighters #EFF #elections2024 #electionnews #democraticalliance #DA #politicalnewsupdates #JaccobZuma #Zuma #Malema #JuliusMalema Politically incorrect #Politicallyincorrect Mashiane Politicallyincorrect #voxpox #voxpopuli #voxpops #voxpopulive Whatsapp channel whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb4A9nOFCCoWkz1syo2s X x.com/Politicaly_Inco Instagram instagram.com/politically_incorrect1254 facebook facebook.com/share/1A9ZGpdRDH