Although it is meant to provide intelligence to forewarn the country about national security threats, the State Security Agency (SSA) is a broken institution. MondliGunugubele StateCapture Presidency SSA Read more below ⬇️
This decision is a major positive development. The Zuma administration merged the two branches and abused the centralised model to protect the president from criticism.
The government’s underestimation of the time needed to restructure the intelligence agency could have potentially serious, even dangerous, consequences.The government under Zuma established the State Security Agency in 2009 as an amalgamation of the National Intelligence Agency, the domestic intelligence service, and the South African Secret Service, the foreign service.
Despite his administration’s stated objective of integrating the two services, they continued to operate on separate tracks. In fact, the merger eroded the very essence of the intelligence mandate – of forewarning the state of national security threats. The failure of intelligence ahead of the July 2021 riots is a glaring example.
A new bill should ensure that the new heads of domestic and foreign intelligence have more discretionary power, reducing the power of the director-general. Doing so should make it more likely that this person will confine themselves to an oversight role rather than becoming involved in operational matters.
The Zuma administration was characterised by many acting appointments in key positions across government, including the State Security Agency and the National Prosecuting Authority. Relying so heavily on acting appointments weakened the government structures, to enable state capture.
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