Joint standing committee on intelligence chairperson Jerome Maake will lead the inquiry into the failures, which allowed a rebellion to foment under the noses of the country's security establishment.
by Maj-Gen Mark Henkel, one of the generals in the unit and acting head when Mdluli was absent, described widespread looting of millions of rand from the
police secret service account, jobs for friends and family and the abuse of safe houses which would otherwise have been used in operations or for witness protection. “Those houses became their homes, and the secret services account paid for those homes,” said Burger. When Mdluli briefly returned to work after his suspension was lifted, he axed Henkel and a number of other generals and senior staff whom he accused of “back-stabbing” him.“It never fully recovered. There was a number of short-term heads but they didn't last long.”
When Peter Jacobs took over as head of the unit in 2019, he was faced with the challenge of identifying Mdluli's appointees and to determine if the hirings were legal. These problems continued to undermine the unit's performance. Along with the failings in the State Security Agency , this meant there was ineffective intelligence gathering.TimesLIVE
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