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Zuma 'hit plot' - police act
27/05/2007 11:07 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The home of ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma's confidant, Elias Khumalo, was raided on Friday as police seized evidence linked to an alleged hoax assassination plot against Zuma, City Press reported on Sunday.
A laptop and various other items were seized at Khumalo's home in the presence of his lawyers.
Sources told City Press that Khumalo was part of a core group of people known to be close to Zuma.
They allegedly took part in an amateurish plot claiming that a former member of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was paid R1 million in a failed plan to assassinate Zuma.
Last week, City Press revealed how Reverend April Peete Mbambo was flown to Durban, where he was allegedly identified by the supposed assassin, Ben Wyland Coetzee, as the person behind the hoax.
Coetzee, a beach vagrant, is reportedly co-operating with the police and has given them an extensive affidavit outlining how the hoax was put together.
Earlier this week, Mbambo and Durban attorney Barnabas Xulu, who was identified in the Mail & Guardian as an acquaintance of Khumalo, denied their involvement in the hoax.
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