Here are 7 things you need to know about SA’s intelligence services, in the wake of details from spy cables released by Al-Jazeera and The Guardian.
According to leaked secret intelligence documents, Dlamini-Zuma allegedly faced "an eminent threat" to her life in Addis Ababa in 2012.
Israeli Mossad agents operating in Ethiopia in 1962 unwittingly trained Nelson Mandela in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sabotage.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation quashed reports that the former president received training from Israeli agents in 1962.
Israel had hoped a row over the use of forged passports in the killing of a top Hamas militant in Dubai was over.
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/ 25 February 2010
Israel came under fresh pressure on Thursday as Australia became the latest country seeking answers over the killing of a top Hamas militant.
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/ 19 February 2010
The recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossad’s history of high-profile, bungled operations.
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/ 19 February 2010
Israel on Friday shrugged off calls for its top spy to be arrested over the killing of a Hamas commander.
Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.
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/ 16 February 2009
A powerful Sudanese rebel leader met secretly with top Israeli espionage officials in Israel this month, Israeli defence officials said on Monday.
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/ 20 September 2008
One of Tzipi Livni’s greatest challenges will be to restore some integrity to the tainted Israeli political system, writes Rory McCarthy.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni publicly acknowledged on Tuesday she had been an agent for the Mossad spy agency.
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/ 29 February 2008
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah group accused the United States on Friday of endangering regional stability by deploying a warship off Lebanon and vowed to defy what it called an act of military intimidation. Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, leads a Lebanese opposition locked in a 15-month-old power struggle with the Western-backed governing coalition.
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/ 11 January 2008
United States President George Bush made his most explicit call for an end to the Israeli occupation after making his first visit to the West Bank on Thursday, where he witnessed Israel’s military checkpoints, the vast West Bank barrier and the spread of Jewish settlements.