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	Bulelani Ngcuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bulelani Ngcuka, one of five siblings, was born in Middledrift, Eastern Cape and schooled in the former Bantustan of Transkei.
		Ngcuka was also member of the African National Congress (ANC)'s delegation to Codesa in 1991 and to the multi-party negotiations in Kempton Park from 1992-1993.
		Ngcuka was the leader of the ANC Preparatory Delegation to parliament from 1993 to 1994 and in February 1997 he was elected permanent Deputy Chair of the National Council of Provinces, and was largely responsible for implementing the provisions of the Constitution relating to the council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulelani_Ngcuka (1148 words)

	SADOCC - News - Discussion on new Terrorism Bill
		Ngcuka was involved in drafting the original version of the bill, which was submitted to the SA Law Commission, but noted that it had been fundamentally redrawn since then.
		Ngcuka said he too thought the bill's definition of "terrorist act" was "extremely wide, vague and overlaps with the provisions of the Intimidation Act".
		Other proposals made by Ngcuka were that the special director of the authority be empowered to authorise the institution of terrorist prosecutions and that the penalty be prescribed as "liable on conviction to imprisonment for life" rather than being worded as "which may include imprisonment for life".
	www.sadocc.at /news/2003-189.shtml (476 words)

	Bulelani Ngcuka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bulelani Ngcuka was born on 2 May 1954 in Middledrift, Eastern Cape.
		In 1998 Bulelani Ngcuka was appointed to one of South Africa’s highest legal offices, the Head of the National Prosecuting Authority.
		Ngcuka proved many of his critics wrong by first creating a very efficient prosecuting authority, and pursuing some popular and highly placed ANC figures for corruption.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/ngcuka-b.htm (460 words)

	Ngcuka's row deepens: South Africa: News: News24
		Ngcuka's past became news in the weeks after the Scorpions'; boss announced that Deputy President Jacob Zuma would not be prosecuted for allegedly soliciting a bribe from a French company in the multi-billion rand arms deal, although there was enough prima facie evidence to take Zuma to court.
		Ngcuka denied through Ngwema that he had had any links with the former National Intelligence Service, including the man who had been cited as Ngcuka's handler, Lieutenant K Edwards.
		Ngcuka also said he was not aware of any security clearance given to him because he "did not apply for any".
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1416130,00.html (500 words)

	SA's prosecutors 'mean business' - SouthAfrica.info
		Ngcuka said the national prosecutions service, which executes the NPA's core function of prosecutions, managed a conviction rate of 85% in district courts, 67% in regional courts, and 87% in high courts for the period of January to October last year.
		Ngcuka also highlighted the success of the Scorpions, which d had managed 214 major convictions from 250 instances of arrest, search, seizure, interception, entrapment, and surveillance, saying these had contributed significantly towards disrupting organised crime.
		According to Ngcuka, the asset forfeiture unit froze assets acquired from criminal activities in more than 170 new cases, with a value of R78-million, returning more than R100-million to victims of fraud and corruption.
	www.southafrica.info /10years/ngcuka-npa_120204.htm (398 words)

	Ngcuka hands in resignation: South Africa: News: News24
		Ngcuka's resignation brings to an end an acrimonious spat that he has had with the ANC and the office of the Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana over a damning report released in May which berated the conduct of the public prosecutor.
		Ngcuka stuck to his guns this week, reiterating that there was prima facie evidence against Zuma, and that he had acted correctly in making the statement to the media.
		In his report, Mushwana found that Ngcuka had undermined the dignity of Zuma when he told the media that, while there was a prima facie case against the deputy president, he would not be charged as the case could not be won.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1562814,00.html (718 words)

	CNN.com - Spy charges 'worse than apartheid' - Jan. 22, 2004
		Ngcuka said he was attacked because of the investigation he was conducting.
		Ngcuka said he suffered during the struggle against South Africa's official government policy of racial segregation but that period of his life was easy compared to the recent past.
		The allegations against Ngcuka arose as the prosecutor and his elite crime-busting unit, the Scorpions, were conducting an investigation into two contracts awarded while Maharaj was still minister of transport.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/01/22/safrica.prosecutor (564 words)

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		Ngcuka said the senior officers had authorised Mkosana to "return fire" -- meaning that troops should only fire when they were actually fired at -- but Mkosana had simply ordered his troops to "fire", resulting in them immediately starting to shoot.
		Ngcuka said this resulted in the death of Tobani Gola, the only marcher who was killed in that area.
		Ngcuka said these three were part of a group of marchers, led by Kasrils, who were fleeing the bullets.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/06/01/easterncape/AAMASACR.HTM (545 words)

	The Herald : News
		Mr Ngcuka applied for a passport before he was detained in 1981 and the document was posted to him when he was in detention for about two weeks, Mr Ngwema said.
		Commenting on allegations that Mr Ngcuka had spied on the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, Mr Ngwema said Mr Ngcuka had joined Nadel in 1987, long after the period he was alleged to have spied on the lawyers’ organisation.
		Mr Ngcuka has dismissed allegations that he was a spy, saying the allegations were part of the smear campaign that had been waged against him since the Scorpions launched corruption investigations into prominent people, among them Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
	www.epherald.co.za /herald/2003/09/15/news/n01_15092003.htm (600 words)

	Moneyweb: South Africa's leading source for independent investment information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ngcuka says that it is imperative that the wealth of the country be spread across the majority of the population.
		Ngcuka says that the difficulty with BEE is that you are dealing with people’s private assets, which makes it difficult for businesses to entrust these assets with people who don’t have a proven track record.
		Ngcuka says that he’d gotten job offers from other companies, who he thought just wanted to use his name, but decided he was best placed at Amabubesi Investments.
	www.moneyweb.co.za /news/empowerment/483529.htm (842 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| South Africa's crime-buster quits
		Bulelani Ngcuka has been at the centre of a political storm for the past year after implicating Vice-President Jacob Zuma in a corruption scandal.
		"Ngcuka was a tough-minded crime-buster who played rough and acted without fear, favour or prejudice when pursuing criminals as required by the constitution and therefore he was the right man for the job," she said.
		Mr Ngcuka last year announced there was prima facie evidence to suspect Mr Zuma of corruption in a multi-million dollar arms deal, but not enough to prosecute him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3925955.stm (310 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Mbeki aides found to have smeared top prosecutor
		They suggested that Bulelani Ngcuka spied for the apartheid regime, but retired judge Joos Hefer said there was no evidence to support this.
		Mr Ngcuka, the head of the Scorpions anti-corruption unit, had accused Jacob Zuma, the vice-president, of corruption.
		The Ngcuka inquiry will be seen to prove Mr Mbeki's limited commitment to fight corruption, even though he made it the centrepiece of his speech to the most recent congress of the ANC.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/21/wsaf21.xml (519 words)

	South African prosecutor to sue over apartheid spy claims
		A spokesman for Bulelani Ngcuka, the country's national director of public prosecutions, said Monday he would claim an unspecified amount of damages from former minister Mac Maharaj, as well as from City Press newspaper.
		Ngcuka's threat to go to court is the latest in an ugly row between himself, Maharaj, who served in former president Nelson Mandela's cabinet, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his financial adviser, Schabir Shaik.
		Ngcuka announced last month that evidence existed Zuma had solicited a bribe in a multi-billion dollar South African arms procurement deal, but that there was not enough evidence to convince the justice ministry to lay charges.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/030908200753.hxq7reu8.html (407 words)

	Global Insight // Same-day Analysis
		In an ironic twist, Mlambo-Ngcuka is married to the country's former chief prosecutor, Bulelani Ngcuka, whose attempt to prosecute Jacob Zuma for his allegedly corrupt involvement in the country's multi-billion dollar arms-procurement programme back in 2003 began the former deputy president's downfall.
		Bulelani Ngcuka claimed at the time that although there was prima facie evidence of corruption by then deputy president Zuma, there was not sufficient to prosecute him successfully (see South Africa: 26 August 2003: SA Deputy President Escapes Corruption Charges, Suspicion Remains).
		But the President chose Mlambo-Ngcuka despite her gender and marriage to Bulelani Ngcuka - the man whose damning pronouncement of Zuma's allegedly corrupt activities has signalled the beginning of the end of his political career.
	www.globalinsight.com /SDA/SDADetail2038.htm (752 words)

	Ngcuka Hits Back at Public Protector [Sunday Times, 2004-05-30] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yesterday, Zuma said he was disturbed by the tone of Ngcuka's response to Mushwana, "especially after failing to honour the constitutional obligation to co-operate with the Public Protector's inquiries".
		Ngcuka and Maduna's anger followed Mushwana's report on Friday criticising Ngcuka for alleged "improper conduct" during a criminal probe by the Scorpions into whether Zuma had received a bribe from Thomson-CSF, a French defence company then bidding for part of the multibillion-rand arms deal.
		Mushwana found that the August 23 2003 press statement by Ngcuka was "unfair and improper" and that both Ngcuka and Maduna had "probably" not informed Zuma of the criminal probe shortly after it commenced.
	www.armsdeal-vpo.co.za /articles06/back.html (670 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| SA prosecutor 'not a spy'
		Bulelani Ngcuka had told the inquiry that the accusations were designed to discredit his work.
		Mr Ngcuka announced there was prima facie evidence to suspect Mr Zuma, but not enough to prosecute him.
		Mr Ngcuka's two main accusers are former Transport Minister Mac Maharaj and former ANC intelligence agent Mo Shaik.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3413467.stm (340 words)

	Guardian \| Apartheid spy smear rebounds
		A judicial inquiry found no reason to believe that Bulelani Ngcuka, the chief prosecutor, was a secret agent for the minority white regime.
		A whispering campaign against Mr Ngcuka, who heads the Scorpions, an elite investigations unit modelled on the FBI, came to a head last August in a newspaper article which claimed that he spied for the apartheid regime before the transition to democracy in 1994.
		Mr Ngcuka unleashed a political tempest by publicly declaring that there was evidence for a prima facie case against Mr Zuma but that no charges would be laid.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4840660-103681,00.html (639 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		According to the police document Ngcuka was apparently granted a passport, although severe travel restrictions were in place against known ANC operatives.
		Phumzile, Ngcuka's wife, is reported to have collected the passport from the couple's private post box and kept it locked away without talking to anyone about it.
		Ngcuka was not an apartheid spy: Scorpions (September 13, 2003, 23:15)
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,65760,00.html (518 words)

	Mr. Bulelani Ngcuka Talks to Inmates in his Drive to Fight Women and Child Abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bulelani Ngcuka, the spouse to the Deputy President Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, will tomorrow 9 December 2005, 14h00, address about 150 inmates at the Leeuwkop Correctional Centre at an event which is part of his participation in the 16 Days for Activism Against Women and Child Abuse campaign.
		Ngcuka's programme will be on male perpetrators of gender based violence who are currently serving sentences.
		Ngcuka as a spouse supports key elements of the Deputy Pesident's portfolio, the fight against HIV and AIDS, Moral Regeneration, growing the economy and the development of Youth.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/2005/16days1209.htm (211 words)

	The Herald : Columns
		I SUPPOSE it would be in place to congratulate Bulelani Ngcuka for being cleared of spy allegations by the Hefer Commission.
		Unlike Bulelani, they did not have the luxury or fortune of a commission of inquiry to test the veracity of the allegations made against them.
		So, as we rejoice that Bulelani has been cleared, although he did not face the risk others before him did, we have to hope that he will never again keep silent when an injustice is done to others.
	www.theherald.co.za /colarc/hcow/hc220104.htm (614 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Ngcuka spy scandal deepens
		Johannesburg-based newspaper, City Press, on Sunday had another exclusive story on Scorpions' boss Bulelani Ngcuka's alleged ties with the former apartheid regime.
		The newspaper claimed to be in possession of a South African Police document which was seized by African National Congress operatives and which revealed that Ngcuka had been granted a passport while in detention.
		Ngcuka's past became news in the weeks after the Scorpions' boss announced that Deputy President Jacob Zuma would not be prosecuted for allegedly soliciting a bribe from a French company in the multi-billion rand arms deal, although there was enough prima facie evidence to take Zuma to court.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/270641.htm (514 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		Ngcuka’s statement was, as even people in the NPA have conceded, “political” — not legal.
		When Zuma’s supporters criticise Mlambo-Ngcuka’s appointment, what they have in mind are images of Bulelani Ngcuka and Zuma bumping into each other in the driveway of Oliver Tambo House, the deputy president’s official residence in Pretoria, as Zuma and his family move out and Mlambo-Ngcuka and her family move in.
		By insisting that her appointment is, by extension, also Bulelani Ngcuka’s, they refuse to see Mlambo-Ngcuka as a person in her own right, as a person whose existence is independent from that of her partner.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A60446 (1054 words)

	CNN.com - Apartheid spy charges thrown out - Jan. 20, 2004
		Ngcuka also examined alleged improper transactions between Maharaj and Schabir Shaik, Moe Shaik's brother, or some of Schabir Shaik's companies.
		Ngcuka refused to prosecute Zuma but also refused to exonerate the deputy president.
		The Mbeki government has been criticized for ordering the investigation because all those involved were members of the ANC and the matter is considered by many to be an internal party dispute.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/01/20/safrica.prosecutor (473 words)

	Guardian \| Apartheid spy clears prosecutor
		An investigation into whether South Africa's top prosecutor was once an apartheid spy was rocked yesterday when a human rights lawyer confessed that she was the agent at the centre of the inquiry.
		The judicial inquiry into the past of director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka has mushroomed into one of the most damaging scandals to hit the ruling African National Congress party since it swept to power in 1994.
		Last month prosecutor Mr Ngcuka stated there was a prima facie case against Mr Zuma, but he declined to press charges, saying he could not be sure of conviction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4779587-103681,00.html (517 words)

	CorpWatch : AFRICA: Former Scorpions Head to Become Involved in Private Security
		Bulelani Ngcuka will play an active role in the investigations arm of Stallion Security, one of South Africa's largest privately held security companies.
		Ngcuka currently serves on the board of Transnet and is a director at Smith Tabata Ramsay Webber Buchanan Boyes Attorneys.
		Zulberg said one area in which Ngcuka's expertise will be invaluable is in the ongoing fight against white-collar crime.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11647 (668 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/government
		It has been confirmed that the apartheid surveillance file on Bulelani Ngcuka, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, will be made available when Ngcuka appears before the Hefer Commission tomorrow.
		Ngcuka is said to have only now known of these letters, which were allegedly intercepted by the apartheid intelligence agents.
		Marumo Moerane, Ngcuka's counsel at the hearing, suggesting that it is documents like these that will prove that Ngcuka was an enemy of the state, and could not have worked with the intelligence agents of the time.
	www.sabcnews.com /politics/government/0,2172,70356,00.html (243 words)

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