STATE Security Minister David Mahlobo has come under fire from opposition MPs for an apparent failure to foresee the xenophobic attacks of recent weeks and a vague security policy.He was also sharply criticised for the alleged leaks of department documents to TV channel Al Jazeera and again for allowing a signal jamming device into the National Assembly before President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address in February.Mr Mahlobo said the xenophobic attacks had started as an industrial dispute and that the State Security Agency had played a role in raids on criminal "havens" within affected communities.He warned that international terrorism, cybercrime and globalisation had worsened worldwide security concerns to unacceptably dangerous dimensions.While delivering his budget vote in an extended committee of the National Assembly on Tuesday, he said terrorism had moved to centre stage in the security discourse.The agency’s priorities included enhancing institutional cyber-security ...
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