Former public protector says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations
As J Edgar Hoover did during his long tenure as FBI boss, South Africa’s former spy chief has seemingly amassed potentially damaging information on leading figures in the ANC
This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The commission will hold witness hearings into Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year era of oppression, opening the way to prosecuting those responsible
Aspiring MPs fear state intelligence is being used to manipulate the list to retain Zuma loyalists.
Pagad – which became notorious for violence in the 90s – says its attempts to help drug-affected communities in Jo’burg have been thwarted by police.
The director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Gibson Njenje, has been forced out of his post, Sunday newspapers reported.
The decision to force through anti-democratic secrecy laws marks a striking retreat from SA’s post-1994 legislative tradition.
Rumours of a fallout between Gibson Njenje, Siyabonga Cwele and Jacob Zuma have sparked fears of the revival of a turf war within the NIA.
The wars that turned South Africa’s intelligence services into a political battleground are over for now.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille insisted on Wednesday that her telephone calls were once being monitored by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Wednesday denied it was monitoring Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s telephone calls.
President Jacob Zuma’s purge of the security services has claimed its most strategic victim: Arthur Fraser, head of a powerful NIA division.
The appointment of Moe Shaik as South African Secret Service head on Friday raised the ire of several political parties.
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/ 24 September 2009
Yes, the Mail & Guardian was spied on by state security agencies, but I won’t tell you why — and, anyway, they were entitled to.
The Democratic Alliance will oppose the reported appointment of Mo Shaik as the National Intelligence Agency’s (NIA) new director general.
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has denied National Intelligence Agency (NIA) deputy head Arthur Fraser gave him secret tape recordings.
The DA laid criminal charges against Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley and National Intelligence Agency deputy head Arthur Fraser on Thursday.
Thabo Mbeki has again denied any political interference in the Jacob Zuma matter, calling for vigilance against ”spreading deliberate falsehoods”.
The DA called on Monday for the president to set up an independent inquiry to probe possible misconduct by the new minister of intelligence.
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/ 30 October 2008
Three sources have independently told the M&G that staff are fuming over what they their life insurance premiums.
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/ 16 October 2008
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Thursday denied spying on legitimate political activity.
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/ 26 September 2008
Cabinet releases policy review that came after hoax saga. Sam Sole and Nic Dawes report.
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/ 6 September 2008
Capetonians have a seemingly endless capacity for being astonished by the weather, which is strange, as we have a lot of it.
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/ 5 September 2008
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.
As the fate of the Scorpions hangs in the balance, the M&G has uncovered a key document used to discredit the unit.
Ex-spy Mhleli ”Paul” Madaka was the source of the sensational claim that President Thabo Mbeki accepted R30-million from a German arms bidder.
The National Intelligence Agency warns against the publication of Young Communist League comments relating to an alleged plot against Jacob Zuma.
Business Day has been ordered to pay the costs of a National Intelligence Agency application to block publication of a sensitive document.
South Africa has the technical capacity to conduct cross-border electronic eavesdropping and 300 of a planned 500 spies are already at work doing so.
Who is really South Africa’s commander-in-chief? National Intelligence Agency director general Manala Manzini gave President Thabo Mbeki this title.
Police and National Intelligence Agency leaders appear to be waging a war of attrition against the National Prosecuting Authority and the Scorpions.