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SA's new intelligence bill could easily have been written by people who wish to turn South Africa into a national security state.

The snooping saga using the Pegasus spyware is still pending adjudication in the Supreme Court.

Greens MPs and other crossbenchers could soon join parliament's high-powered intelligence committee under proposed government changes which the opposition warns will increase the risk of classified material leaking.

In 2019 ROBERT MACKLIN broke the national story of the secret trial of Witness J and his furtive imprisonment in the Alexander Maconochie Centre. Now the judge's sentencing remarks have been released, but Witness J won't be silenced…  

Investigatory powers commissioner has identified non-compliance by intelligence agencies and MoD

  – Emma Arbuthnot is the chief judge who conducted the trial for the extradition of Julian Assange in London to the USA, where a 175 year prison sentence awaits him for “espionage,” that is, for having published evidence of US war crimes, including videos of civilians’ killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an

The EFF responded with attacks on the media after it emerged the party's deputy leader, Floyd Shivambu, illegally shared a classified Inspector General of Intelligence report on the so-called SARS "rogue unit" with a manager at the Public Protector in 2018.

Collaery's only supposed “crime” was exposing the unlawful actions of the intelligence agencies, as part of Australia’s neo-colonial thuggery in the Pacific.

Had the farcical prosecution of former ACT Attorney General Bernard Collaery gone on, all suspicions about a legal system slanted in favour of the national security state would have been answered, argues Binoy Kampmark.

A formal complaint has been laid against executive mayor Mpho Phalatse, for allegedly subverting evidence against the former head of the anti-corruption unit Shadrack Sibiya’s unlawful acquisition of counter-intelligence instruments.