South Africa’s State Security Agency: Can it be fixed before it’s too late?
SA’s State Security Agency is in desperate need of a reform – a restructure that requires urgency otherwise a shutdown may be on the horizon.
SA’s State Security Agency is in desperate need of a reform – a restructure that requires urgency otherwise a shutdown may be on the horizon.
The US Embassy’s recent issuing of a terror alert for Sandton, placed South Africa’s State Security Agency under scrutiny with some uncomfortable questions emerging.
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser is on the tips of many tongues these days for various reasons. Michael Appel takes a look at the man instrumental in shaping South Africa from the shadows.
The news flow is relentless and dominating headlines this morning is the shooting in Japan of that country’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe.
A declassified report from within the belly of the State Security Agency (SSA) details how agents infiltrated several civil society organisations in South Africa posing as activists.
With the ANC’s elective conference this December, the timing of the allegations by former spy boss Arthur Fraser smell to high heaven.
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser this week laid a criminal complaint against President Cyril Ramaphosa on a host of charges including bribery and kidnapping following a February 2020 robbery at his Limpopo home. The optics are looking bad for Ramaphosa.
“Citing sources in the intelligence community, ENCA’s Barry Bateman said these former agency members used intelligence networks to spark the riots.”
Magda Wierzycka says she was well aware that she was the subject of illegal surveillance. Now a state security operative has confirmed it.
A storm has erupted around a front page Sunday Times report that SABC’s directors resolved to approach the State Security Agency to help address “leaking” of board minutes.