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Johannesburg - Former Delta Mining Consolidated CEO Heine van Niekerk has retracted a claim that he bribed spy boss Gibson Njenje, reports the Sunday Times.
Van Niekerk reportedly confirmed to the newspaper that he wrote an e-mail to his UK bosses in 2011 in which he claimed to have bought Njenje a quad bike "to cement a relationship so that I knew we could call upon a favour should we ever have some serious shit".
According to the Sunday Times, he had since told the newspaper he did not purchase the bike and sent the e-mail only as "emotional blackmail" to show he was well-connected among the powerful.
The newspaper reported that Njenje, former director general of the State Security Agency's domestic branch, had denied being bought a quad bike by Van Niekerk.
"I simply asked him to find me an automatic quad bike for my farm and I paid for it myself.... He has never asked for special favours and I certainly have never given him any favours," he was quoted as saying.
The newspaper reported that Njenje and Van Niekerk were currently business partners as directors of Anglo African Capital.
