Gangster State

Noby’s killer,’ she recalled.
According to the spook, the assassin had been provided with a gun, a
car and money. There had also been a getaway driver who had waited
for the shooter and then driven off with him as soon as the deed was
done. In other words, the murder had been a well-planned and well-
executed hit.
The NIA agent told Marshoff that the killer and his getaway driver
had driven away from the scene of the crime but had stopped the car
not far from the cul-de-sac’s entrance, where they got into a second car
that had been waiting for them. The first car was then driven away by
someone else, while the shooter and the getaway driver left in the
second car. ‘He told me that the two men [the shooter and the driver]
drove to Bethlehem, where the murder weapon was thrown into the
Saulspoort Dam,’ said Marshoff.
There was more. The intelligence operative also told Marshoff that
there was a plan under way to frame someone for the murder so that
the public’s attention would be diverted from claims of a political hit.
The spook said he could not go to the police with the information,
because they were part of the cover-up. But he wanted to pursue the
matter. To do this, he needed resources. ‘He asked for a car that
couldn’t be traced to him and for some money, and he said he needed a
couple of days,’ recalled Marshoff.
Given the potential danger of being linked to a sensitive, off-the-books
operation, Marshoff got one of her staffers to rent a car for the spook in
such a way that it could not be traced back to the premier’s office.
Marshoff also gave him about R 500.
True to his word, the NIA agent returned two or three days later. He
told Marshoff that he had managed to track down the getaway driver