Testimony before Judge Zondo

Testimony heard by Zondo in January 2021 from former spooks boss Loyiso Jafta:

• Huge amounts of cash were carted out of the SSA headquarters in Pretoria, particularly in December 2017, in the lead up to the ANC conference.

• R9-billion in fixed assets were not accounted for and R125-million could not be accounted for in the 2017/18 financial year.

• The SSA’S unlawful activities had spilled over into civil society and the trade union movement with the establishment of the Workers Association Union to rival Amcu in the platinum belt.

• Intelligence funding was subverted to boost the ANC’S performance in elections. For example, in the Western Cape, this involved non-government organisations being given support to shift the political landscape.

Mufumadi report findings:

• Pervasive and serious breaches of financial controls in the SSA involving, in some cases, “serious criminality”.

• Excessive use of cash transactions in the SSA undermines effective financial controls.

• During the 2016 ANC January 8 statement in Rustenburg, the unit on the SSA “initiated three countering operations to impede the distribution of CR17 regalia, impede transportation system of dissident groups from GP”.

• There was an almost total breach of financial and other controls by the SO unit resulting in excessive expenditure and, in some cases, criminality.

The panel recommended that the state urgently institute forensic and other investigations by the competent authorities into the breaches of financial and other controls identified, especially with regard to the PAN project and SO, leading to disciplinary and/or criminal prosecutions.