{"id":3998,"date":"2003-07-25T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2021-03-10T03:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:22:48","slug":"south-africa-ifp-resorts-to-lie-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/25\/south-africa-ifp-resorts-to-lie-detectors\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: &#8220;IFP Resorts to Lie Detectors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Jaspreet Kindra reports for the <i>Mail and Guardian.<\/i> Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifp.org.za\/\">Inkatha Freedom Party<\/a> apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the media and other organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP&#8217;s intentions were disclosed at its council meeting during the party&#8217;s national conference in Ulundi two weeks ago, the <i>Mail &amp; Guardian<\/i> has established.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>M&amp;G<\/i> has learnt that the IFP had engaged the services of Durban-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lietech.co.za\/\">LieTech<\/a> to conduct the tests, and the company had already started doing some work for the party.<\/p>\n<p>National council members at the conference were asked to fill in a questionnaire prepared by the company. Among the questions were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Will you be willing to undergo a lie detector test?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Have you ever leaked National Council minutes?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Have you ever leaked the speech of our president, Prince MG Buthelezi?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Who do you suspect is the mole within our party?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What must happen to the mole? Must he be suspended from the party?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IFP&#8217;s national organiser, Albert Mncwango, said he was not aware that the party had hired the services of a lie detecting concern, nor had he filled in any questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>He said, however, that the party had the &#8220;right to do whatever it takes to beef up its internal security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>LieTech&#8217;s Ben Lombaard said he could neither confirm nor deny that the IFP had hired the services of his company. &#8220;We respect our client&#8217;s confidentiality,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP&#8217;s lie detector tests come shortly after the <i>M&amp;G<\/i> revealed that the party was plotting to use taxpayers&#8217; money to enhance the profile of its provincial ministers and to weaken the African National Congress ahead of the 2004 elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaspreet Kindra reports for the Mail and Guardian. Excerpt: The Inkatha Freedom Party apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the media and other organisations. The IFP&#8217;s intentions were disclosed at its council meeting during the party&#8217;s national conference in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,143,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-3998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dragnet","8":"tag-leaks","9":"tag-south-africa","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}