A high-level review panel on the State Security Agency has blamed former president Jacob Zuma for the mess in the intelligence community
President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday released the final report of the review panel, which was led by former safety and security minister Sydney Mufamadi.
“This has been partly aggravated by the fact that many of the leadership and management of the intelligence services have come from an ANC and liberation struggle background and have seemingly, in some cases, not been able to separate their professional responsibilities from their political inclinations,” reads the report.
The report says on political interference: “All this was in complete breach of the Constitution, the white paper, the legislation and other prescripts. From about 2009 we saw a marked doctrinal shift in the civilian intelligence community, away from the prescripts of the Constitution, white paper and legislation and plain good practice.”
The report says that “apart from the fact that the amalgamation did not take place on the basis of a formal change of policy involving parliamentary and public consultation, it did not achieve its stated intentions of reducing expenditure, effecting better coordination and reducing duplication”.“There is a disproportionate application of secrecy in the SSA stifling effective accountability and facilitating serious non-compliance with controls, including blatant criminality.
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