Chairperson, up until recently former South African Police Service, SAPS, Crime Intelligence boss, Richard Mdluli, represented all that was wrong in our justice cluster. He was guilty of a veritable cornucopia of crimes, but they were swept under the carpet and remain hidden to this very day, while he has wafted off on a boosted pension leaving the unit to be run as a family business: Mdluli Inc.
I thought the amount Mdluli allegedly looted via the Crime Intelligence Slush Fund was massive, but it was nothing. This murky State Security Agency, SSA, has made Mdluli look like a rank amateur. Well over a billion rand that we've heard of was apparently looted from the Intelligence Slush Fund. To quote the bombshell report of the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency, released some 2 months ago. What the hell happened?
The answer in short is that the increasing politicisation of the intelligence and security community in general, and the SSA in particular, over the past decade or more, the Zuma Years. From the moment Jacob Zuma ascended the Presidency ... [Interjections.]