Cyril Ramaphosa says reports and evidence the SSA had an unvetted private army working for former President Jacob Zuma are being investigated. | BabaloNdenze
CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa said that reports and evidence that the State Security Agency had an unvetted private army working for former President Jacob Zuma were being investigated.Ramaphosa was on Thursday giving evidence at the state capture commission where abuses of power at the agency have come under the microscope.
"The account and the report of those people employed, who were given arms, some of them automatic arms that have never been accounted for and brought back and the activities of those people that you are talking about. So it is part of a intensive investigative process." Ramaphosa said that appointing key people to strategic positions was how state capture manifested itself.
He added that while there were bad apples in state security, there were still a number of good people. Download the Eyewitness News app to your iOS or Android device.
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