SANEF calls on Zondo to publish list of journalists on SSA payroll
SANEF has expressed its concern over allegations of journalists being used as spies to further the agenda of the State Security Agency.
The South African Editors Forum (SANEF) has called on the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture to divulge the names of journalists who were paid by the country’s intelligence agencies where there is evidence to back this up.
During Dr Sydney Mufamadi’s testimony, the commission, which is chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Zondo, heard that about R20 million was paid by the intelligence agency to ANA to influence the national news narrative and to counter the bad publicity around former president Jacob Zuma’s government.
On February 9, 2021 Jessie Duarte, the Deputy Secretary-General (DSG) of the African National Congress (ANC) wrote an article that was flagrantly disrespectful of the Commission on Inquiry into State Capture, popularly known as the Zondo Commission. Several people, including a former finance minister, have written suitable responses to Duarte piece published by the Daily Maverick.
My take on Duarte assault on the integrity of the Zondo Commission is motivated by several worrisome factors. It comes in the wake of a widely distributed letter in which Jacob Zuma, the immediate-past President of the ANC, and of the Republic of South Africa, defies a constitutional court ruling that he presents himself before the Zondo Commission, as required, and respond to allegations made by thirty-five odd individuals who implicate him in acts of corruption. The gravity of Zuma’s defiance has been likened to
Former MPs Vincent Smith and Deputy Transport Minister Dikeledi Magadzi were the latest to appear before Judge Raymond Zondo to give evidence on SOEs in the portfolios.