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Zondo commission: Fraser personally signed off on SSA payments to ANA 29 Jan 2021 Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo) Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to...

Zondo commission hears how SSA infiltrated media, bribed journalists Updated Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile Share this: The commission of inquiry into state capture has heard how several journalists, including those working for African News Agency (ANA), were allegedly paid millions of rands as part of a bribery operation by the State Security Agency (SSA). Youtube On Friday, a witness known only as ‘Ms. K’ and who is an investigator at the agency, continued her testimony.   She told the commission that their investigation found evidence of at least R48 million was paid from the SSA...

Media houses rebuffed spies or demanded too much money, says ‘Ms K’ on ‘Project Wave’ News24 Wire Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Picture: Refilwe Modise One of Project Wave’s ‘challenges’ was listed as the recruitment of media houses to work with SSA operatives. Many of the media houses that State Security Agency (SSA) operatives tried to recruit for its “Proj...

Every time there is a media report of an assassination, the State Security Agency (SSA) officials in charge of the armoury pray it is not from a bullet fired from one of the firearms supposed to be under their control, testified Ms K (name withheld) before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Friday.  It has a been a week of startling testimony before presiding Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, revealing to what extent national security was undermined by Zuma enablers such as former SSA Deputy Director-Generals Sonto Kudjoe, Thulani Dlomo (also ambassador to Japan), and former D...

’ANA is not a front for the SSA and won’t be drawn into factional wars’ By Staff Reporter Share The African News Agency (ANA) may have been contracted to do some work for the State Security Agency (SSA), but the company was never a front for the SSA, nor was it set up as a propaganda vehicle for the ruling party, ANA chief executive officer Vasantha Angamuthu said on Tuesday. Angamuthu was commenting on allegations made on social media after former minister Sydney Mafumadi’s testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture. Mafumadi, who head...