Come on, Maphatsoe, pull the other one

Ronnie Kasrils described Kebby as an ‘MK deserter’, writes from Germiston.

IRichard

read the interview with Kebby Maphatsoe, deputy minister of defence, in a Sunday newspaper with some amusement. He said MK were protecting Zuma “from foreign forces wanting to remove the ANC from power”. He blamed it on “regime change forces supported by foreign forces”. Really, Kebby?

Maphatsoe gave no answer as to who specifically these forces were – country, agents, institutions, headquarters etc. He did accuse Thuli Madonsela at one stage of being a CIA agent. No proof whatsoever, just a figment of the imagination. He stated that the evidence was “public”. Huh?

Why has he not alerted the South African intelligence services if it is so serious? He then states that, when talking about “forces”, he is just using his “military language as a soldier”.

What? Kebby was a “cook at the Moscow military camp in Angola, and later in Uganda rather than a front-line soldier” (Sunday Times interview). He lost his right arm in a failed attempt to escape from an ANC camp in Uganda in January 1991.

Who are the highly skilled “commissars” he is talking about? He said the masses “should rise up and fight against this regime change”, but then states he is not inciting violence.

Come on, Kebby, what’s that about deploying “combat-ready soldiers”?

Ronnie Kasrils described Kebby as an “MK deserter”. Now, this man is deputy minister of defence, I ask you?