SPY WARS: How the Zuma doctrine broke the State Security Agency | PieterDuToit
Former president Jacob Zuma has, for the umpteenth time, emerged as the central figure in the dismantling of another institution of state – this time the State Security Agency .
Former president Jacob Zuma and David Mahlobo at the Nasrec Expo Centre on December 14, 2017 in Johannesburg. The report describes the SSA as an institution almost wholly and completely concerned with factional battles inside the governing ANC and the creation of parallel intelligence networks to the sole benefit of Zuma's personal political ambitions. It says the president was part of covert efforts at"social engineering" by a secretive SSA unit and that it entails a breach of the Constitution and law"for which there must be consequences".
Such a public service, however, also requires a government that understands those tenets and respects it in principle and practice. The panel, however, found that the Zuma government did not do this and that fears about presidential interference"in the administration and conduct of the intelligence services" were all too real.
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