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Sydney Mufamadi said that a proclamation made by former President Jacob Zuma violated the separation of powers and allowed him to make changes in intelligence.
A YouTube screenshot of the former chairman of the State Security Agency’s high-level review panel, Sydney Mufamadi, who appeared in the state’s capture investigation on January 25, 2021.
JOHANNESBURG – The state capture commission of inquiry heard Monday that the Special Operations Unit of the State Security Agency was a law unto itself, serving political interests.
This was the testimony of Sydney Mufamadi, who chaired the agency’s high-level review panel.
Mufamadi said that a proclamation made by former President Jacob Zuma violated the separation of powers and allowed him to make changes in intelligence.
Mufamadi described the SOU’s activities as “unconstitutional and illegal.”
He said his panel found that the intelligence agency had factions that reflected divisions in the African National Congress (ANC).
He also talked about how the SOU that was established by Zuma refused to inform internal structures.
“That unit was a law in itself, that is, relative to the management structures of the SSA. The most senior people said ‘like special operations, they told us we report to the executive.’
Mufamadi also detailed how the money was used without accountability.
“Huge amounts of money, which were regularly allocated for projects and financial accounting, people said ‘we don’t get reports.’
Mufamadi said that the changes made by Zuma to SSA operations bypassed established security structures such as SAPS.
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