Former minister of intelligence Ronnie Kasrils said the country received poor service from those who were in charge of State Security Agency (SSA).
“Those who are criticising the move need to look at the international situation, there are very few countries in the world; I can count Iran, Israel perhaps where you have an intelligence minister who is in charge of intelligence then reports to the president,” Kasrils said.“He is bringing the country into the mainstream of practice internationally with this move, it is more efficient.
“We have seen in relation to the chaos from the second week of July that the president was not warned. The information went to the security cluster and all the problems there resulted in ministers bickering, saying they didn't receive the information, contradicting each other, that nothing got through to the president.
“People are alarmed at what happened, the president is in charge of security for our country. If he had received that information in time, clearly, he would have ensured that police would have mobilised and were ready to deal with all the eventualities. “So this is the right move. I totally support the process, I salute the president for taking this decision at long last,” said Kasrils.
Ramaphosa on Thursday announced that he had appointed a panel of experts – consisting of Professor Sandy Africa, Silumko Sokupa and Advocate Mojanku Gumbi – to probe the recent violence.
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