I need help with this one. So the president of the good republic SA appointed an intelligence minister who is being investigated for fraud and all sorts of other mayhem by the Hawks? And the president wasn’t aware of this? Is this serious? We all know that our intelligence services are now nothing more than a private security company for President Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. When author Jacques Pauw said in his book The President’s Keepers that Zuma was a tax dodger and corrupt, the secret service did not rush to investigate the president. They don’t go after people who break the law, you see. They quickly decided to shoot the messenger, Pauw, instead. And how better to do it than to take a leaf from the apartheid spooks, the very same people that Pauw exposed way back in the 1980s as murderers and torturers? There hasn’t been a cease and desist order in SA since 1994. So Zuma and his guys decided that’s what they were going to use. Good luck with that passing through a court of law ...

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