In line with recommendations of the 2018 High Level Panel Review into the State Security Agency, President Cyril Ramaphosa tightened control over the body in a Cabinet shuffle on 5 August, locating political oversight in the Office of the President.
“This is to ensure that the country’s domestic and foreign intelligence services more effectively enable the president to exercise his responsibility to safeguard the security and integrity of the nation,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa when announcing the changes on Thursday night.
The president needs Cele in KwaZulu-Natal. With Zweli Mkhize agreeing to step down on the strength of a rag and bone promise to challenge the findings of the SIU report into the Digital Vibes scandal and Jacob Zuma in Escourt under state watch, Cele is now the remaining face of the party in the region.
A further measure to strengthen security services that have all but been eroded and repurposed is the appointment of an “expert panel” chaired by Sandy Africa, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and consisting of advocate Majanku Gumbi and Silumko Sokupa, national coordinator of the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee .
Considering the accepted failure of the security cluster to predict or prevent the recent “attempted uprising”, it was expected that former state security minister Ayanda Dlodlo and former minister of defence and military veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula would be replaced.
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