JANE DUNCAN|
THE parliament of South Africa’s oversight committee on intelligence recently tabled its 2019/2020 annual report. The engrossing and depressing read documents the failings of the country’s spy agencies in unflinching detail.
If not addressed, these failings may leave the country exposed to even more serious crime and national security threats than it has faced already.
The spy agencies were weakened during former president Jacob Zuma’s term.
The report shows that these weaknesses have not been addressed adequately under President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The report incorporates reports from Bess Nkabinde, the judge responsible for granting the country’s intelligence services permission to intercept communications. This is in terms of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act, 2002 (Rica Act. The oversight committee’s report also included that of the Auditor General.
Nkabinde’s report is damning of the Rica process and its weaknesses. The law requires the spy
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