Zuma 'Superspy' On Trial, Carrim's New Charges, Bafana Sindane's Massive SARS Bill

Marion Tam about Operation Mayibuya. In November 2025, one Tulani Dlomo was arrested. He was at one point the ambassador to Japan, but he also allegedly was Jacob Zuma's former super spy. Back when IDAC was less Andrea Johnsony, led an investigation into Tulani Dlomo and another man called Patrick Shotola, project manager in the

The secret, what? The state security agency, which is our secret service, our spies, our spooks, the SSA. There was a special operations unit, and the pair faced charges for the fraudulent withdrawal of 12 million rand in 2015, allegedly carried out across three tranches to fund Operation Mayibuye, in the words of Marion Tam from the Daily Maverick. Operation Mayibuye, allegedly, it seems, was a project set up within our state security agency.

To protect Jacob Zuma from prosecution and neutralize and undermine his political allies. Yes, this is where the allegation of Tulani Dromo being a super spy for Zuma comes in. The allegation is that spooks, spies with all of the powers of a secret service, with all of their access to information, with all of their powers to do things off the books and off the record, with all of their powers to honestly, comfortably work beyond the reaches of the law and oversight and accountability.

Because they're spies, they can just do that. I don't know if you've watched any show recently, Slow Horses is a good one. I've caught up, by the way, James. We have a lot to talk about. It is terrifying to consider the fact that within the State Security Agency, there was a project that allegedly acted to neutralize opposition to Jacob Zuma. This is, as Marion Tam says, about as deep state as you can possibly imagine. The Zondo Commission concluded an

In its final report, that Project Moebuya was an umbrella for covert operations specifically engineered to shield Zuma from political fallout and to actively destabilize opposing political parties and individuals, and also redirect and divert funds. And that's what Tulani Dlomo and Patrick Mshotola are on trial for. And the reason why we're talking about it is for a little while, it looked like the trial was not going to be available to the public. But now, through an appeal from a raft of

Organizations like News24 and Daily Maverick and Amabungane, we're going to get to witness it, which is kind of obviously important and in the public's best interest, right? This is about as severe as it gets. Spooks working for the interests of a political figure, allegedly. And remember, the spooks killed a SAPS investigator just a few years ago and seemed to be acting as an extra-military rogue unit for the interests of certain people. You'll remember our shows where we were talking about that guy who got snapped.