Much ink has been employed over the past few years to describe the construction of a parallel state under the supervision of Jacob Zuma and his supporters.
By that, he surely meant that South Africa had now made a decisive break from an awful racist and repressive past. Within less than two decades into democracy, spying on non-government organisations as well as on opposing factions within the ruling party, and the generation of fake news to undermine opposition to the rule of Jacob Zuma, became the work of the SSA.
As Mr Mandela said in his speech from the dock at the Rivonia trial and again in his 1994 inaugural speech in 1994, while a key objective was the eradication of racist rule, it was also about the need to ensure that no one would any longer be oppressed by the state and its agencies.
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