ANC stalwart and former intelligence minister, Ronnie Kasrils, who served under Thabo Mbeki, asked Ramaphosa to act on the Mufamadi panel report to deal with the dysfunctional intelligence apparatus.
The poor handling of the recent attempted insurrection by the country’s spooks has raised fears of worsening securityenvironment in South Africa and the entire region, especially with ongoing terrorism in northern Mozambique. Security expert Prof Jakkie Cilliers called for the recruitment of a specialist with no political affiliation to run the country’s intelligence.
Security expert Prof Jakkie Cilliers called for the recruitment of a specialist with no political affiliation to run the country’s intelligence. He highlighted how solid professionalism was displayed by former apartheid era National Intelligence Service headed by Dr Niel Barnard, a professor recruited from the University of the Free State.
They referred to a report by a state-appointed High Level Panel appointed to probe the State Security Agency , that had begun to gather dust. It also found a parallel unit was established within the agency that was set up within the SSA to serve former president Jacob Zuma’s personal interests.The details of the politicisation and abuse of the agency under Zuma and his various state security ministers, including Siyabonga Cwele and David Mahlobo and former SSA chief Arthur Fraser, were revealed by Mufamadi and several State Security department officials to the Zondo Commission early this year.
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