RECAP: New allegations of how the former head of the ANC, the party and others benefited from the SSA
27 Jan 2021
During the Zuma era, the State Security Agency (SSA) fought factional battles in the ANC, provided covert election support to the governing party and served the personality cult of the president to the point of unlawfully detaining one of his spouses suspected of poisoning him.
During the Zuma era, the State Security Agency (SSA) fought factional battles in the ANC, provided covert election support to the governing party and served the personality cult of the president to the point of unlawfully detaining one of his spouses suspected of poisoning him.
Attempt to postpone Jafta s testimony was not malicious, says Dlodlo State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon, explaining that she merely wanted a briefing beforehand based on her constitutional obligation to oversee intelligence. FILE: State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.
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JOHANNESBURG - State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo said her failed attempt to postpone the evidence of director general of intelligence Loyiso Jafta at the State Capture Commission was not malicious.
Dlodlo issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon, explaining that she merely wanted a briefing beforehand, based on her constitutional obligation to oversee intelligence.
Ms K describes ‘separate and discrete’ SSA command structure to protect Zuma
27 Jan 2021
Former State Security Agency boss Arthur Fraser goes on the offensive as allegations mount against him at the inquiry into state capture. (Felix Dlangamandla/Media 24)
A witness identified only as “Ms K” on Tuesday named South Africa’s defence secretary, Sonto Kudjoe, three cabinet ministers and the former director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), Arthur Fraser as the main authors of intelligence abuses during the Zuma era.
Ms K told the Zondo commission that the transgressions included setting up a shadowy parallel force with SSA funding that took over all aspects of assuring then-president Jacob Zuma’s personal safety.
State security minister s request to postpone intelligence agency acting DG s evidence at Zondo commission dismissed Penwell Dlamini > By Penwell Dlamini - 26 January 2021 - 12:00
The State Capture Commission has dismissed an application by state security minister Ayanda Dlodlo to delay the evidence of acting director-general of the intelligence agency Loyiso Jafta.
Dlodlo made an application to have Jafta’s testimony, who heads the State Security Agency (SSA) postponed to a later date due to national security concerns, her lawyer Dumisa Ntsebeza argued.
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âANA is not a front for the SSA and wonât be drawn into factional warsâ
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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 Mafumadiâs testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture.
Mafumadi, who headed a High-Level Review Panel into the State Security Agency, testified the panel had found evidence the agency wanted to infiltrate the media to counter negative news reports on former president Jacob Zuma and the ruling ANC.