Spy Tapes – The Mail & Guardian

/ 2 July 2022

How spies shape South Africa’s political path

From Mbeki to Zuma to Ramaphosa, the facts and fictions of the intelligence networks have shadowed political players and settled power struggles

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/ 14 September 2017

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