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Former NIA legal adviser says she cannot remember key TRC events as cross-examination sought
Advocate Howard Varney, representing victims from the Calata Group, has applied to cross-examine former National Intelligence Agency legal adviser Yvonne Mabule. Mabule…
Madonsela says State Security Agency tried to snoop on CIEX-Bankorp probe
Former public protector says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations
[From our archives] Spy boss Fraser brings out his wrecking ball
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
South African intelligence services are fluent in NoSpeak
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…
Gambia launches probe into ex-dictator’s abuse
The commission will hold witness hearings into Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year era of oppression, opening the way to prosecuting those responsible
Spooks vet ANC candidates
Aspiring MPs fear state intelligence is being used to manipulate the list to retain Zuma loyalists.
Does Jo’burg need Pagad?
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.
NIA boss ‘not aware that he’s resigned’
The director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Gibson Njenje, has been forced out of his post, Sunday newspapers reported.
Shout about the ‘Secrecy Bill’
The decision to force through anti-democratic secrecy laws marks a striking retreat from SA’s post-1994 legislative tradition.
Intelligence boss Njenje could be on his way out
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.
Spooks back to their old tricks
The wars that turned South Africa’s intelligence services into a political battleground are over for now.
Zille maintains her calls were being monitored
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille insisted on Wednesday that her telephone calls were once being monitored by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
NIA says it is not monitoring Zille’s calls
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Wednesday denied it was monitoring Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s telephone calls.
Zuma’s new spy purge
President Jacob Zuma’s purge of the security services has claimed its most strategic victim: Arthur Fraser, head of a powerful NIA division.
Moe Shaik’s appointment angers opposition parties
The appointment of Moe Shaik as South African Secret Service head on Friday raised the ire of several political parties.