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Mashukuca also said he consulted section 12 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) 2 of 2000 regarding exemptions and office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence was not among those listed in the section

The Constitutional Court gave lawmakers three years to rewrite the legislation that regulates how the state spies on our private communications. But, with just over 18 months left to make the amendments, the recent final report from the Zondo Commission’s inquiry into State Capture has made i...

South Africa spends just north of R10.8-billion on intelligence. But no one would know that from Tuesday’s parliamentary budget vote debate.

It seems Dintwe’s focus on actually doing his job put a target on his back.  He said “concerted efforts” to remove him from office came within weeks of Bongo being appointed Minister of State Security. Evidence he presented suggests Bongo – who was arrested on charges of corruption in 2019 and later acquitted by controversial Cape Judge President John Hlophe – and his then director-general, Arthur Fraser, launched a twin-pronged attack. Bongo, according to Dintwe, tried a legislative...

In the clandestine business of national intelligence, the South African Constitution ensures there is civilian oversight in the form of an office to hold the country’s spooks to account. The office is that of the Inspector-General of Intelligence, who for the past four years has been Dr Setlhomamaru Isaac Dintwe. It was Dintwe who appeared before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture chairperson, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, during Tuesday’s evening sitting.  Dressed in a thr...

ADVERTISEMENT The HASC intelligence subcommittee’s jurisdiction covers military intelligence, national intelligence, counter terrorism, and “sensitive operations.” Most agencies in the intelligence community are in the Defense Department, and those budgets devoted to tactical intelligence programs exceed $20 billion. The $61.9 billion national intelligence budget includes all the services, NSA, NRO, DIA, and NGA. All are in Defense (NRO is shared with the DNI.) Again, all quite sensible �...

Acting Judge Jacques Minnaar found on 8 January 2021 that National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole was not only entitled to act against Jacobs and his fellow officers, he “is obliged to do so by law”. Jacobs, as well as other top CI officials, Brigadier Albo Lombard, section head: intelligence planning and monitoring; Colonel Isaac Walljee, acting section head: supply chain management; Colonel Manogaran Gopal, section commander: vehicle fleet management and asset management secret service...

Thus the application by Jacobs, argued Sitole, was not urgent “and any urgency is self-created”.  Sitole said that “proper safeguards are in place in the interim and the day-to-day functioning of the Crime Intelligence Division has not been compromised in any way”. Jacobs and his fellow officers were on a “precautionary” and not “punitive” suspension, said Sitole, pending the finalisation of an investigation into alleged illegal Covid-19 PPE purchases by the division, using the...

SAPS Crime Intelligence head, Lieutenant General Peter Jacobs and five fellow officers from the division are seeking an urgent intervention from the Pretoria High Court to declare their suspensions by National Commissioner Khehla Sitole unlawful. Jacobs was the first to be served with a notice of suspension on 30 November, while fellow officers were notified on 10 December 2020. “Credible evidence was available that the Account was looted by a number of CFOs and or Divisional Commissioners an...

Happened. or im sorry, of even what andrew mccabe has said. we know that he said that to savannah guthrie but we dont know that it actually happened. >> thats an important point, ali, and first let me congratulate you for getting the intelligence oversight act of 1980 in a script. as the intelligence reporter i appreciate that deeply. but youre right. i am treating this with a little bit of skepticism because ive seen this movie before on the cia and torture where the cia claimed they briefed ce...