Call for Dlodlo sacking

JOHANNESBURG - The EFF has c a l l e d f or St a t e Securi t y Minister Ayanda Dlodlo to be sacked for all egedly misleading t he public and Parliament with her claims that her department fed intelligence information to the police at the start of the unrest.

The party said it reached out to Dlodlo with questions about her claims, but the answers were not forthcoming. It further accused her of peddling misinformation during a critical time in the country.

“This is evidence of how dangerous Mini s t e r Aya n d a Dl o d l o i s t o t h e national security and stability of our country. She is part of the information peddlers who lie to our people to protect their utter incompetence.

“She has misled the public and her officials in the State Security Agency ( SSA) have deliberately misled Parliament to hide their utter incompetence and negligence,” said the party.

Dlodlo t old j ournalists l ast week the situation could have been worse h a d t h e SSA n o t a l e r t e d p o l i c e t o the planned demonstrations in KwaZulu- Natal and Gauteng. She was responding to criticism that law enforcement did little to avert the unrest.

However, TimesLIVE reported that Police Minister Bheki Cele earlier this week denied receiving intel from SSA. He said he would have signed the information after receiving it from Dlodlo, but this never happened.

“It’s not that I have never seen that product. These products you sign for when you r eceive t hem. You s i gn. When you receive the product of State security, you sign.