As an Afrikaner conscript I fought MK, Modise and Hani but even I have found the reporting on Modise to be problematic. Our disinformation campaigns generated a lot of conspiracy theories which still find themselves in main stream media, including RW Johnson. In the same book where he claims Robert Mugabe knew about the 9-11 attacks in the USA before they happened and that he helped the terrorists (lol), Johnson claims Modise was an Alexandra township gangster (another lol) and cites a former apartheid security officer as a source??? Johnson could have interviewed his family who would have told him Modise was from Sophia Town and never spent time in Alex. I found this out when I met some of his family and old ANC types at a book launch last year.  More recently, I cam across corroboration of this in Ahmed Kathrada's biography where he explains how he used to spend time with Modise going around Sophia Town.  While fighting the communists we were forced to do a lot of terrible things!