A London court is hearing lurid claims of bribery involving the West African country’s 2010 poll.
It is not a case of if Moe Shaik is leaving the secret service, insiders in the murky world of state intelligence say, it is when — and for how much.
President Jacob Zuma on Monday expressed sadness at the death of former National Intelligence Service and later SA Secret Service head Mike Louw.
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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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/ 12 February 2008
South Africa’s elite, FBI-style Scorpions anti-crime unit will be dissolved, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Tuesday. ”The Scorpions … will be dissolved and the organised crime unit of the police will be phased out and a new, amalgamated unit will be created,” Nqakula told Parliament in Cape Town.
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/ 11 February 2008
The "specialist nature" of the Scorpions might well be retained, wherever the unit is finally located, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. He said the government remained firmly committed to ensuring South Africa’s capacity to fight organised crime was enhanced, not reduced.
The South African Secret Service’s deputy director general, Silumko Sokupa, would take over as the new coordinator for intelligence next month, the Intelligence Services said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Lorna Daniels said President Thabo Mbeki had appointed Sokupa following the early retirement of Barry Gilder.