Progress had been made on the Protection of State Information Bill. Not enough to render it safe for democracy, but progress nonetheless.
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has asked for the inclusion of a contentious clause into the current draft of the secrecy Bill.
Correspondence shows that Sheryl Cwele clearly knew about the plans to bring drugs into South Africa, writes Glynnis Underhill.
A suspended top spook’s ‘sponsored’ comeback pits spy vs spy in a dirty battle to gain the upper hand before the ANC elective conference in Mangaung.
The new intelligence Bill has run into a new flak as critics complain that it threatens to concentrate power in the state security minister’s hands.
The alarm has been sounded over a proposed law that will create an intelligence monolith and allow wider bugging of SA citizens without a warrant.
Foreign spies will not be happy when the secrecy Bill is passed, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has assured an ad-hoc NCOP committee.
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/ 19 January 2012
The Mail & Guardian is using Poogle to decipher the double speak, the innuendo and damned lies our beloved public figures enjoy using.
The ANC has praised Public Protector Thuli Madonsela for deciding not to investigate State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela on Monday rejected a request from the media to investigate the state’s arguments on the info Bill.
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/ 13 December 2011
Sanef has asked Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to investigate Siyabonga Cwele’s comments about the Protection of State Information Bill.
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/ 29 November 2011
Intelligence Minister Siyabonga Cwele says they have information that former apartheid security officials are fabricating intelligence reports.
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/ 21 November 2011
Mass demonstrations against the Protection of Information Bill will be held today, as it is put to the vote in Parliament’s National Assembly.
Sanef has threatened legal action if a public interest defence clause is left out the controversial Protection of State Information Bill.
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says the new secrecy Bill is not targeting the country’s free press despite fears by critics.
The ANC’s NEC meeting was given an unscheduled presentation on the Information Bill shortly before it was unexpectedly withdraw earlier this week.
Buoyed by positive crime stats, the police chief has come back fighting, sources claim.
Siyabonga Cwele’s financial interests show possible conflicts and controversial business partners.
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/ 16 September 2011
The most senior leaders in SA’s state security apparatus are fighting to keep their jobs
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/ 13 September 2011
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says he has told President Zuma that rogue spies will not be tolerated in the intelligence services.
Siyabonga Cwele has ordered top intelligence officials to resign as divisions emerge in the country’s spy community ahead of crucial ANC elections.
When the minister of state security released the Protection of Information Bill it was met by fierce protest from organisations and activists.
Lawmakers won agreement from the ANC to consider proposals for extending protection to those who disclose classified information for the public good.
What Jimmy Manyi’s ultimate fantasy could look like
The ANC submission on the Information Bill appears to have been written by the adviser to the security minister.
Rights campaigners are up in arms over the ANC’s bid to ram the Protection of Information Bill, stripped of hard-won concessions, through Parliament.
The calls for South Africa’s state security boss to resign are both mischievous and misplaced, writes <b>Eusebius McKaiser</b>.
Tessa Beetge.s mother now wants her daughter’s sentence reduced following the conviction of Sheryl Cwele.
The first reaction to Sheryl Cwele’s sentencing for drug dealing has come through calling for the minister of state security to step down or be fired.
Sheryl Cwele, the wife of state security minister Siyabonga Cwele, sat stony faced in the dock as Judge Piet Koen convicted her of dealing in cocaine.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court is expected to deliver judgement in the drug trafficking case involving the wife of the state security minister.
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.