Brazen use of their powers needs to be regulated and punished 🔒
The recent judgment of the Constitutional Court as to the constitutionality of SA law regulating the interception of communications begins with soaring words from our constitution: “[N]ational security must reflect the resolve of South Africans, as individuals and as a nation, to live as equals, to live in peace and harmony, to be free from fear and want and to seek a better life.”
That’s a timely, even stunning, reminder of what we might demand of our national security agencies. Certainly, it chimes only dissonantly with the recent revelations before the state-capture commission indicating that our state security agencies were repurposed to allow a very favoured few to live free from fear and want, albeit with scrupulous concern, including the recruitment of toxicologists to test their food and bedding...