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‘Chris Hani was killed before he could expose 1 The Kokos blew R38m in Eskom loot on
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Leader of the South African Communist Party Chris Hani was murdered before he could expose Town cop killed, 8 others injured in car
crash
the role that former defence minister Joe Modise played in the arms deal. And Modise didn’t die
of cancer; he was poisoned, the Seriti Commission of Inquiry has heard. 4 'Terror attack': Natjoints warns South
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Arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne told the inquiry that this information was relayed to him
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by Bheki Jacobs, an African National Congress functionary who was trained in the Soviet Union Curro pupil knocked over during
as an intelligence operative morning school run

“I was told by Bheki Jacobs six weeks before Mr Modise died [in 2001] that he was being
poisoned, and that his death would be ascribed to cancer,” Crawford-Browne told the inquiry’s Newsletters
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“Mr Modise was known to have many enemies and it is also known there was considerable
animosity between him and Mr Chris Hani dating from their times in exile.”

Jacobs, also known as Uranin Vladimir, Hassan Solomon and Hassan Osman, died at his
mother’s home in 2008 after a six-month battle with cancer.

In 2003, Jacobs was arrested, and later exonerated, for allegedly plotting an assassination. The
charge of conspiring to commit murder was watered down and finally dropped.

At the time, Jacobs reportedly believed his one-time comrade and later nemesis, Moe Shaik, to
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Crawford-Browne testified that there were allegations that when Hani was assassinated by Get the newsletter
Janusz Walus in 1993, he was on the verge of exposing Modise’s involvement in, and corruption
relating to, the arms deal.

“It has been alleged that Mr Janusz Walus was ultimately employed by the [British arms
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manufacturer] BAE, perhaps by way of John Bredenkamp, the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean who was
the second-largest recipient of those BAE bribes,” he told the inquiry.
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He said blaming Clive Derby-Lewis for Hani’s murder was merely a red herring to blame white
right-wing elements, diverting attention from the British arms industry.

Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiring to kill the South African Communist Party general
secretary by providing the gun Polish immigrant Walus used to kill him in the driveway of his
home in Boksburg, on the East Rand, on April 10, 1993.

The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, has
served more than 20 years of his sentence.

Derby-Lewis was initially sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment when
the death penalty was abolished in 1995. He has been repeatedly denied parole.

Today, Crawford-Browne said Jacobs told him that an investigating team’s report into the arms
deal was doctored pending Modise’s death “so that dead men can tell no tales”.

“I have now consequently reported the allegations of poisoning to the deputy commissioner of
police in the Western Cape, but no action was taken,” he said.

The commission was appointed by President Jacob Zuma three years ago to investigate alleged
corruption in the arms procurement deal.
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