New State Security Minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba has been asked to clean up her department, which has been under fire in recent months. Former director-general Arthur Fraser, who has been moved to correctional services, was at the centre of the department’s credibility crisis. President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed during question time in Parliament on Tuesday: "I have … instructed the minister of state security to take … steps to attend to all governance and operational challenges confronting the agency and to work to restore the public’s confidence in this critical institution." As part of the clean-up, Ramaphosa said he would establish a review panel to look at whether the State Security Agency and the intelligence services needed to be restructured. The DA has signalled its intention to approach the Constitutional Court to have Fraser’s appointment as commissioner of correctional services set aside with immediate effect. Fraser, while still spy boss, was locked in a vicious dispute w...
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