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[Source: Daily Maverick by Rebecca Davis.]
As the implications of the high-level review panel report on the State Security Agency continue to ripple through South African society, calls are growing for swift action against those officials implicated by the report. Read more
[Source: Bloomberg by Michael Cohen.]
Factions in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress are seizing the policy initiative and undermining President Cyril Ramaphosa’s efforts to revive the nation’s flagging economy, according to Robert Schrire, a political science professor at the University of Cape Town. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Pieter-Louis Myburgh.]
The high-level review panel report on the State Security Agency’s (SSA) illicit activities during the Zuma years is awash with examples of politically-motivated operations, corruption and the spy agency’s general disregard for the rule of law. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Stephen Grootes.]
For over 10 years there has been intense speculation about the real role our intelligence services play, and their apparent politicisation. Now there are findings, in black and white, from the High-Level Review on the State Security Panel. It’s pretty terrifying, and yet it could be an important and positive milestone in our history. Read more
[Source: News 24 by Kyle Cowan.]
The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa this weekend published a bombshell report by the high-level review panel into the State Security Agency, revealing damning evidence of how the SSA was repurposed to serve the political interests of former president Jacob Zuma and his cronies within the ANC. Read more