Services Account Amendment News Today

The parliament of South Africa’s oversight committee on intelligence recently tabled its 2019/2020 annual report. The engrossing and depressing read documents the failings of the country’s spy agencies in unflinching detail. If not addressed, these failings may leave the country exposed to even more serious crime and national security threats than it has faced already. The spy agencies were weakened during former president Jacob Zuma’s term. The report shows that these weakness...

The judge responsible for authorising the covert monitoring of communications has found that claims by journalists that they were being spied on were credible.