Former Intelligence boss Mo Shaik has lauded the incorporation of the State Security agency portfolio to the presidency.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken responsibility for state security into his cabinet and appointed former cabinet minister, Sydney Mufamadi as National Security Adviser.
Shaik says intelligence services fall under a system of checks and balances and the decision by Ramaphosa will ensure that the structure functions optimally.
“I think what we have had is a dysfunctionality of the intelligence services and that (of the) security cluster as a whole. But that dysfunctionality is, I think, what is going to be sorted out now, so that there is more coherence in government; there’s more systematic processing of information and systematic action based on the information processed. So, I don’t think it reflects badly on the ministers that were there. What it does reflect is that the inefficiency that was inherent to the system will now be resolved hopefully in a new way going forward.”
Former spy boss Mo Shaik welcomes the incorporation of State Security agency into the presidency:
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