President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced that minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele would assume political responsibility for the State Security Agency in a move analysts said might not be unrelated to the fire that ravaged parliament early this month.
The presidency said the step was in line with Ramaphosa’s announcement on 5 August last year that the ministry of state security would be done away with and responsibility for the entity would in future reside in the presidency.
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