I felt betrayed by leaked letter to ANC - Phosa
Pretoria - Mathews Phosa felt betrayed when sensitive documents, given to ANC leaders regarding the party's Mpumalanga chairperson David Mabuza, were leaked.
"I felt betrayed because a matter that was given in confidence was leaked," Phosa, the ANC’s former treasurer, told the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
He was testifying in his defence, in a R10m defamation lawsuit which Mabuza brought against him. Mabuza is also the premier of Mpumalanga.
The case relates to a top secret report Phosa handed to ANC officials in 2014. According to the document, Mabuza was an apartheid government informer, agent PN485, who spied on party leaders, including Phosa, during South Africa's liberation struggle. Mabuza has denied the allegations.
Phosa told the court that everything started when ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte asked him who Mabuza was.