One of the most startling aspects of Inspector-General for Intelligence Dr Setlhomamaru Dintwe’s testimony at the Zondo Commission is that for some MPs, the revelations wouldn’t have been startling at all.
Dintwe, who testified on Wednesday, has been in the job for four years and repeatedly informed Parliament’s 11-member Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) that members of the State Security Agency (SSA) and Crime Intelligence were brazenly stealing cash designated for covert operations. They either kept it for themselves, used it to fund factions of the ANC and even funded parallel intelligence operations.
Legitimate intelligence services require cash. Agents use it for covert ops to pay sources and for services that require a level of secrecy. SSA and Crime Intelligence members abused that system because, well, they knew they could get away with it.
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A Mount Fletcher police officer, 29, has been arrested for allegedly shooting his girlfriend during an argument and lying about it to police investigators.
The cop will appear in the Mount Fletcher Magistrate s Court on Thursday. (Photo via Getty Images)
A police constable has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting his girlfriend, and then lying that she had been shot in an attempted robbery.
The constable from the Mount Fletcher police station in the Eastern Cape was arrested on Wednesday, a week after taking his girlfriend to hospital.
He claimed she had been shot by people who had tried to rob them, said Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesperson Ndileka Cola. The officer allegedly went to open a case of attempted murder of his girlfriend and himself at the police station. When the police visited the girlfriend in the hospital, she informed them that she was shot by her boyfriend after they had an argument, she said.
Saps protects its own, even when it s own are killers, claims new investigation
12 May 2021 11:14 AM
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The Viewfinder investigation has revealed killings and brutality are enabled by police managementâs reluctance to discipline cops.
The ability of the police service in South Africa to interfer with the outcomes of Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigations has done untold damage to the pursuit of justice in the country.
That s according to one of the authors of a newly published investigation into police accountability.
Daneel Knoetze, is the founder and editor of Viewfinder, a police accountability project which undertakes looks into abuses of power that impact on the public interest.