IN FULL | ‘Political actors working on a smear campaign’: Cape Town MMC JP Smith raided by SAPS

Cape Town safety and security MMC JP Smith, whose offices were raided by police on Friday, believes the incident was part of a carefully planned smear campaign by a “political hit squad” out to get him.Provincial commercial crimes investigators raided the offices of Smith and energy MMC Xanthea Limberg earlier in the day, suggesting it was part of “forensic investigations which emanate from a case before court”.“I have been tipped off that some political actors have been working on a smear campaign and have mobilised a political ‘hit-squad’ against me,” Smith said in a …