Globally, intelligence services trade in secrets and conduct covert operations. But this does not exempt them from public scrutiny, parliamentary oversight, and audit processes.
I wonder what it took for the spooks to cook the books Perhaps it’s better for SA’s sanity if what happened to that R9bn the SSA ‘lost’ is kept on a need-to-know basis 28 January 2021
Step aside, 007. There’s a new super-spy in town: 000000000007, South Africa’s State Security Agency, which clearly has a licence to add nine zeroes to anything it touches and then promptly lose it all. ..
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TOM EATON | I wonder what it took for the spooks to cook the books Perhaps it’s better for SA’s sanity if what happened to that R9bn the SSA ‘lost’ is kept on a need-to-know basis 27 January 2021 - 19:40
Step aside, 007. There’s a new super-spy in town: 000000000007, South Africa’s State Security Agency, which clearly has a licence to add nine zeroes to anything it touches and then promptly lose it all.
That, at least, has been the gist of alarmed headlines coming out of the Zondo Commission in the last few days, as Chief Justice Zondo hears testimony that the SSA has “lost” assets to the value of R9bn.