Intelligence

THE new inspector-general of Intelligence, Imtiaz Fazel, will play a watchdog role over the activities of Defence Intelligence, Crime Intelligence and the State Security Agency (SSA). Fazel faces serious challenges, as highlighted by the Zondo commission report on State Capture and the Mufamadi report on the SSA. The agencies have been found to be partisan and their resources have been used to interfere in opposition politics and ANC factional battles. Opposition parties have called on Fazel to be non-partisan. His office is funded by the SSA and this raises questions about its independence.

“He needs to motivate Parliament for legislative change so that he can get his own funding,” said KZN violence monitor Mary de Haas. |