State Security Agency denies claims that minister spied on ANC colleagues

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'In this regard we wish to categorically state that minister DipuoLetsatsiDuba has never been a source or agent of the SSA.'

"However, in light of the article published in Independent Newspapers group on May 19 2019 alleging that minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba was an agent of the SSA, it is in the public interest element that we respond.

"In this regard we wish to categorically state that minister Letsatsi-Duba has never been a source or agent of the SSA." The agency has been rocked by damning findings contained in a report by a high-level review panel, led by former minister and academic Sydney Mufamadi. The panel found that during Jacob Zuma's presidency, when former spy boss Arthur Fraser headed the agency, it was used to fight factional battles and illegally spy on Zuma's opponents.reported at the weekend that Fraser, in his 78-page response to the findings, claimed that former apartheid spies incorporated into post-1994 intelligence structures had sold fake information to ANC politicians, including former presidents, to sow division in the state.

 

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