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ANC 'not privy' to alleged intelligence reports accusing Xiaomei Havard of spying on behalf of China

ANC 'not privy' to alleged intelligence reports accusing Xiaomei Havard of spying on behalf of China
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Beijing , China , South-africa , Pretoria , Gauteng , Chinese , South-african , Zizi-kodwa , Africa-chen-xiaodong , Pemmy-majodina , Xiaomei-havard , Intelligence-services

Misuse of Pegasus Was Enabled by Governments Ignoring Calls to Reform Intelligence Agencies


Misuse of Pegasus Was Enabled by Governments Ignoring Calls to Reform Intelligence Agencies
Since Independence, every Union government brushed aside opportunities to create oversight mechanisms which are common in other parts of the world.
Illustration: The Wire
Rights28/Jul/2021
When India won Independence, it had the choice of two models for its intelligence agencies. One was the United States’s version, which gave intelligence work a legal basis, insisting on accountability and transparency through a system of checks and balances. George Washington, one of the founding fathers of the US, established this principle in his first State of the Union address in January 1790 by requesting the US Congress for funds to finance intelligence operations. The US passed the National Security Act in 1947 and the CIA Act in 1949 to cement these principles.

Norway , Australia , United-states , United-kingdom , Argentina , New-delhi , Delhi , India , Vietnam , Republic-of , South-africa , Canada

Pressure on Dlodlo to release intelligence report she claimed to have sent to Cele before civil unrest

Pressure on Dlodlo to release intelligence report she claimed to have sent to Cele before civil unrest
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Violence in SA | WATCH | Make intelligence report public - DA

Violence in SA | WATCH | Make intelligence report public - DA
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Mkhwebane applies to appeal scathing SARS 'rogue' u...


Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has argued that a full bench of the North Gauteng High Court erred when it overturned her report on the so-called SARS “rogue unit” and lumped her with a personal costs order for her “egregious” conduct.
Mkhwebane and the EFF’s application for leave to appeal the December 2020 judgment was heard in a virtual sitting of the court on Friday, 23 April 2021.
That judgment dismissed the findings in Mkhwebane’s July 2019 report, which found that Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan had established an illegal intelligence-gathering unit while he was SARS commissioner in 2007. Mkhwebane also found Gordhan had misled Parliament on the issue.

Gauteng , South-africa , Mpofu , Kwazulu-natal , Pravin-gordhan , Selby-baqwa , Justice-madlanga , Busisiwe-mkhwebane , Sulet-potterill , Supreme-court , Gauteng-high-court , National-strategic-intelligence

Abuses at SA's spy agency show poor governance, but it can be fixed


Abuses at SA’s spy agency show poor governance, but it can be fixed
By The Conversation
Moses B. Khanyile
Earlier this year allegations of widespread financial irregularities and distortion of the mandate of South Africa’s State Security Agency were made at the judicial commission on grand corruption. The agency is responsible for collecting intelligence on domestic and foreign threats to the country.
The allegations point to a complete breakdown of corporate governance. They have serious implications for the agency’s operational performance, matters of national trust, reputation and international intelligence sharing arrangements.
Corporate governance is essentially about ensuring accountability in how an entity conducts its work and uses its resources to achieve its goal. Internal controls must be in place and auditable.

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Spy agency abuses show poor governance in the organisation

Sound corporate governance dictates that mechanisms should have been in place to ensure continuous accountability at the spy agency.

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Abuses at South Africa's spy agency show poor governance. There are solutions

Globally, intelligence services trade in secrets and conduct covert operations. But this does not exempt them from public scrutiny, parliamentary oversight, and audit processes.

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Concourt bans bulk Internet surveillance in South Africa


Constitutional court bans bulk Internet surveillance in South Africa
In a landmark judgment handed down on Thursday, the constitutional court banned the South African state from bulk surveillance of online communication, preventing security agencies from hoovering up Internet data.
This sort of surveillance, which is routinely done by agencies such as the National Security Agency in the US and GCHQ in the UK – both of which have routinely tapped into submarine Internet cables – is now illegal in South Africa thanks to the country’s highest court.
The minister of state security had appealed an earlier high court judgment on the legality of bulk communication surveillance. The lower court had already declared bulk surveillance unlawful. The judgment by the constitutional court means the state has run out of legal options and any bulk surveillance is now unlawful and invalid.

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Zuma's spy state: A decade of unfettered surveillance...


First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Here are a few eye-watering, mind-blowing take-outs from this week’s hearings into the State Security Agency (SSA) at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Zondo.
The commission heard evidence from Dr Sydney Mufamadi, chair of the High Level Panel Review into the SSA; Loyiso Jafta, acting director-general of the SSA; and Ms K, an investigator with the current iteration of the SSA’s Project Veza, aimed at uncovering wide-scale malfeasance at the SSA. The commission heard that:
Thulani Dlomo, Jacob Zuma’s personal spy, unlawfully established a Central Directorate for Special Operations (CDSO) within the SSA, unaccountable to anyone but the President. Special Ops had access to limitless secret funds for a variety of propaganda projects targeting the judiciary, media, trade unions, civil society, NGOs, academia, and ANC and government officials perceived as potential “enemies of the state”.

Germany , South-africa , Russia , Pretoria , Gauteng , Nkandla , Kwazulu-natal , Bongani , Mpumalanga , Rustenberg , Sachsen-anhalt , East-german