Marching orders for SSA boss
Controversial director-general moved to correctional services
STATE Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser was abruptly moved to the Department of Correctional Services. A statement from State Security Ministry spokesperson Brian Dube said: “A decision has been taken to transfer the director-general Arthur Fraser to the Department of Correctional Services.
“The transfer follows consultation between President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Minister of State Security Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba and Fraser on the suitable location of the director-general… (it) will be effective with immediate effect.”
Dube added Loyiso Jafta was appointed to act as director-general. He holds a law degree from the Walter Sisulu University and has extensive experience in the intelligence field dating back to Umkhonto we Sizwe days, when he served as an analyst in the department of intelligence and security. Jafta has previously served in numerous roles, such as an analyst in the counter-intelligence division of the former National Intelligence Agency, client liaison officer on the national intelligence co-ordinating committee, convener of the KwaZulu-Natal intelligence co-ordinating committee, and has been tasked with responsibility for the government’s Justice, Crime Prevention and Security, and International Relations, Peace and Security clusters as a member of the policy co-ordination and advisory services unit in the Presidency.
Last week, the Inspector-General of Intelligence, Setlhomamaru Dintwe, brought an urgent interdict to ask the Pretoria High Court to bar Fraser from interfering with his duties.
Dintwe claimed Fraser had allegedly sought to revoke his security clearance and had interfered with his functions while he was investigating a complaint lodged against the SSA director-general.