Opinion

Fix the spooks or we won't have the ghost of a chance

31 January 2021 - 00:04 By S'thembiso Msomi

In his earliest days as intelligence minister, Ronnie Kasrils apparently enraged a number of the country's top spooks when he suggested, it is claimed, that police crime intelligence did a much better job at spying than they did...

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