Thank you very much hon House Chair, the National Assembly constituted an ad hoc committee, which looks into the
submission of the Minister as an annual performance plan. The names that were submitted in the House were approved in the presence of the Minister in the Presidency. I would have thought that the intellectual challenge is limited to other members not yourself. Part of the mistake that we committed was that, we limited the work of the ad hoc committee to state security. And therefore crime and military intelligence Annual Performance Plans, APP, have not been properly processed in terms of appropriations. That will have implications on whether their budget can go through, later on in the House.
We have to return to that particular aspect, because we don't know what is going on with regards to those two aspects of those departments. During the second week of March this year, the Presidency of Ramaphosa published a report of the high level panel on state security agency which told the story of how the South African state security has been completely compromised and privatised to fight personal and factional battles of politicians, in particular, Zuma. Amongst the key findings, the report stated that amalgamation of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, and the South African Social Security, SASSA, into Social Security Administration, SSA, was in bridge of the white paper on intelligence. The initial establishment of SSA through presidential
proclamation was regular due to the constitutional requirement that the President can only establish intelligence services through legislation.
There have been pevasive and serios bridges of financial controls in the agency involving in some cases serious criminality. There has been an extremely serious politicisation and factionalisation of the civilian intelligence community and this has worsened since the creation of SSA. The manipulation of the SSA for financial purposes has emerged from the top, the Presidency through the ministry of state security and into the management and staff of the SSA. The activities of the SSA and attempt at social engineering through its SO arm and the involvement of the President and Minister in these activities constitute a serious bridge of the constitution and law for which there must be consequences.
The then Minister directly participated in intelligence operations bridge, in bridge of constitutional and legal prescripts and the desired boundary between the Executive an d the department. Most importantly, the report says, it's not an EFF report, it's your government report, the JSCI played little role in recent years in curbing infractions of the SSA and that no effective oversight on its side was carried out. In fact, it would seem that the committee
with an ANC majority was itself affected by the politicisation and factionalisation seen in the ANC in Parliament and in intelligence community and in other arms of government. This is the context within which the sixth administration rises to propose its annual performance plans. From what we have heard, there is no evidence of a systematic over howl of the personnel in the bureaucracy, no suspensions, and no major inquiries. Mr David Mahlobo was just re- deployed to a different department, regardless of what this report your own report, says about his implication in breaking the law and the constitution.
Four months later, no one has been arrested, suspended or even subjected to any internal disciplinary processes, but this report shows that you are not in command of the intelligence community, hon Minister. The centre does not hold, all the personnel, does not report to you but somewhere else. It is for this reason that we do not support this budget. A massive abuse of the intelligent service continues to this day. We are in possession of evidence that the President and CIC of the EFF, Julius Malema is still being monitored by your department in general pursuit of people who hold different views from the status quo. More than political factions is how political leadership holding political ideas that are hostile to the status quo are being covertly monitored in a democratic society of
key interferes is the criminal and illegal existence of a rogue unit within SARS under the watch of the ANC government. Many out there want to argue that the rogue unit was a mere investigative tool within SARS. What is draws the line between an investigative unit and an intelligence unit? According to our NSI Act, once your investigations include counter intelligence and covert operations or covert collection. You are in the terrain of intelligence. As a result, only a head of state can establish an intelligence unit and must do so within constitutional and national legislation. It is a fact that the rogue unit intended to operate within the terrain of intelligence. That is why they were consulted with the national intelligence agency then
Despite the fact that the NIA pulled out, such a unit could not still be established purely by consultation with the NIA as well as the Minister. They still needed an approval of a seating President. The rogue unit engaged in covert intelligent operations outside the legislative provisions of our country without parliamentary oversight as required by law and you stand here and speak, the whole time you do not say anything about dissolving such things used against revolutionary interest of your own government.
We have written to you Minister, to classify reports which the Inspector General, IG, compiled about this unit, its activities and the equipments. This is important in order for your department not to comply with the practice of secrecy, which only serves to cover up corruption and criminality. When we take an oath to say we are going to discuss secret things in there, it is not an oath to cover up corruption. Those who break the law must be pursued, and part of that pursuit is that you must name and shame people who are not engaged in responsible covert operations on behalf of the interest of the state, but against the interest of the state and the people of South Africa. Release the report of the IG on the rogue unit. Umeleni? [What are you waiting for?]
You can indeed pay attention to service delivery, students, and workers protests but the key intelligence work has to be dedicated to sophisticated white monopoly industry related crimes, which may very well collectively possess more intelligent capability with disciplined ground forces then yourselves. You will know that our intelligence could not detect the currency fixing work of our local banks. It took the United States of America, USA, anonymous sources for us to intercept what our banks were engaged in, which was counter revolution.
Key questions arise as to why banks did this, in particular, the power they hold. If decisions of political direction are taken that they do not lie. [Time Expired]