By Simon Nare
President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the country’s law enforcement agencies have been weakened and are unable to detect some prevalent organised crimes, including extortion.
He was responding to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday on how the intelligence agencies failed to intercept the July looting spree in 2021, illegal military training in Mpumalanga, and the spreading of kidnappings and extortion.
Ramaphosa said that despite the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency in 2018 pointing out that the intelligence services were politicised and factionalised, nothing had been done to remedy the situation.
The review panel led by Professor Sydney Mufamadi found that the highly factionalised intelligence community resulted in an almost complete disregard for the Constitution, policy, legislation and other prescripts.
It also found that the intelligence community had been turned into a private resource to serve the political and personal interests of particular
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