Intelligence reform must be the lesson from the July unrest – DA
The State Security Agency must be removed from the presidency and reformed as per the recommendations of the 2018 High-Level Review Panel report into the State Security Agency, which has mostly been collecting dust till now.
The expert panel appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to investigate the unrest of July found that police had failed to stop the rioting and looting because they were overwhelmed.The members of the panel were Prof Sandy Africa as chairperson, Advocate Mojanku Gumbi and Silumko Sokupa. The president tabled the report of the expert panel at a meeting of the national security council on Friday, February 4.
The president authorised the release to the public of the report of the expert panel he had appointed in August 2021 to review the government’s response to the spate of orchestrated public violence, destruction and sabotage in July 2021. He tasked the panel with leading a thorough and critical review of the security services’ preparedness for such events.
“Our analysis suggests that a combination of complex and obscure factors formed the background and led to the outbreak of violence never seen before in our post-apartheid democracy, leading to contestations in the public space, including between senior members of government, over how to characterise it,” the panel said.
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