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By Baldwin Ndaba 
10h ago
Pretoria – South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation referred investigations into the allegations against former Deputy Ambassador to Sudan, Zabantu Ngcobo, to the police.
This follows a report on the alleged involvement of Ngcobo’s partner in a plot to assassinate an intelligence officer attached to the South African Embassy in Sudan.
According to a report by the Daily Maverick, Ngcobo’s partner allegedly approached the embassy driver, an Eritrean national, to kill the intelligence officer for allegedly sending harmful information about Ngcobo to his bosses in Dirco.
Dirco spokesman Lunga Ngqengelele said: “As Dirco, we can confirm that there are allegations against our Deputy Ambassador to Sudan.
“As Dirco, we have referred the matter to the South African Police Service for investigation.
“The police will work with the Sudanese authorities on the matter. We will only be able to comment on the matter once the investigations are completed, ”said Ngqengelele.
He confirmed that Ngcobo is in the country.
Ngqengelele’s reaction came after damning reports appeared in newspapers in Sudan and the country that the revelation against Ngcobo came after the Eritrean made a confession to police about the plot following his arrest following the murder of two women. Sudanese women murdered in Khartoum in December last year. .
The police had reportedly previously thought that the women might have been victims of a satanic ritual murder.
One had reportedly been dismembered and her body dumped in separate plastic bags outside the city.
The corpse of the other was found wrapped in a shroud in a city garbage dump.
Later, the police arrested two locals for the murders and heard an even stranger story. The men claimed that they had lured the women to the apartment of the South African Deputy Ambassador to Sudan and killed them as a “training” exercise.
The killings were said to be a test to prepare them for their real mission: assassinate the intelligence officer at the South African embassy.
Political Bureau
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