ANTI-PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe campaigners using pseudo names yesterday hacked the African National Congress (ANC) website accusing South Africa’s ruling party of supporting Zanu PF and “blessing mass killings”.
REPORT BY MOSES MATENGA
In an interview with NewsDay from his Johannesburg base yesterday, ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza said the people who were targeting the ANC website accused the party of not reining in the 89-year-old leader.
“We don’t know these people, but they claim to be Zimbabweans and don’t support Mugabe. They blame the ANC saying the party supports Mugabe and therefore want to target the website,” said Khoza.
The hackers first warned of the attack through their Tweeter account Anonymous Africa @zim4thewin saying they were targeting the website and described the ANC as enablers of “mass murdering Mugabe”.
“Ladies, gentlemen and secret agents, today we shall be hitting one of the biggest enablers of the mass murdering Mugabe, the ANC, in 50 min,” read the tweet in part.
The group later tweeted saying: “@MyANC tick tock tick tock, your site will stop working in 40 minutes. Think about all the blood on your corrupt hands when it is down.”
ANC national spokesperson Jackson Mthembu in a statement, said people calling themselves legitimate representatives of Zimbabwe have flooded the website of the ANC.
“The ANC has noted that someone calling themselves Anonymous and claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people of Zimbabwe has flooded the website of our organisation,” Mthembu said.
“This was done through a deliberate assault on tour system called Distributed Denial of Service (DDS) according to which computers send copious amounts of traffic to a site’s server until it crashes.”
Mthembu said the ANC, whose leader President Jacob Zuma is the Sadc-appointed facilitator in the Zimbabwean political crisis, was working tirelessly to ensure normalcy was returned to Zimbabwe.
“ANC and the South African government, working through Sadc, continue to work with the Government and people of Zimbabwe to assist them find their own lasting solution to the challenges facing that country,” Mthembu added.
“To date, as a result of the efforts of the people of Zimbabwe and Sadc, we have seen the successful implementation of critical milestones in the Global Political Agreement including the holding of a free, fair and successful referendum, and the signing into law of a new Constitution of Zimbabwe; significant achievements which have been welcomed and accepted by the people of Zimbabwe,” he said.
He said his party would not be “deterred or derailed” in the efforts to assist in Zimbabwe.
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