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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 approach to negate his oversight powers, while Fraser tried to hound him out with unfounded and ill...
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 three-piece checked suit replete with tie pin and pocket square, Dintwe appeared eager to air his exper...