Podcast excerpt·TUE, 27 OCT 2026 · 12:37:30–12:40:11 SAST
A short excerpt from Mchunu’s R2,7m legal bill, CR’s inaction, Sibiya’s secrets & Zuma’s spies v/s the EFF… on BizNews Radio. Watermarked for fair-dealing attribution, free to share.
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Willem, let us go to former President Jacob Zuma's state security agency spies infiltrating the parliamentary caucus of the economic freedom fighters for political espionage. Yeah, I mean, that was something that it came as a shocker, but it was about to come out. Yeah, one thing about former President Zuma is we must understand that in the previous dispensation, he was the head of this.
Now, this used to be the intelligence organization or faction of the ANC back then. They were quite powerful. They were quite established. And he realized the importance of intelligence when he came over, became president. And so the very first things that it seems that he did is he targeted the intelligence fraternity or both your states.
Security as well as the crime intelligence with Richard Mundli that was placed there. And of course, now that is coming out in this few weeks about the capture of the SSA. So he knew the importance and he really knew how to abuse that. And it seems, according to this evidence that is coming out, that he really did quite a good job. Well, if fighters are
And they want to lodge a complaint with the Inspector General of Intelligence. Only one problem: that the Inspector General of Intelligence has been suspended for a long time already. Indeed, you know, the problem that came, especially just after the Zondo Commission, your intelligence services were really in disarray. They started with the revamping, they started with the Gilab Act that they wanted to revise and update the Intelligence Act and try to get their
In order to try to reverse some of the damages that have been caused by the slave capture. And now we can see how they have been compromised. So your challenge with your state security agency is at the end of the day, in a constitutional state like we are, they don't serve the president. The president serves the constitution. And so he turned that around by using.
The elements of the instruments of the state to serve him and his own party political sort of endeavors instead of to serve the country. Let's go to some good news, Willem, for other African countries joining South Africa to combat drug trafficking. You have all the details on that. Of course, this is very exciting times for us. We see, especially in recent months, we saw the discovery of quite
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