ANC leadership row deepens

Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils has warned that the e-mails doing the rounds about an alleged conspiracy involving the leadership of the ANC should be ignored. Kasrils compared the e-mails to the practices of the apartheid era Stratcom. Kasrils gave little detail about the e-mails in a public statement, but Intelligence Inspector-General Zolile Ngcakani has been tasked to investigate their origin. The intrigues around the country's intelligence community and the struggle over the presidential succession within the ANC has necessitated another extension of the investigation that started with a probe of unlawful surveillance of businessman and leading ANC figure Saki Macozoma.