Conflict
Spy vs spy in State Security Agency’s bitter office politics
The ‘arrest’ of South African State Security Agency operatives in Mozambique that has recently come to light, and the subsequent suspension of SSA foreign branch chief Robert McBride, reveal a truth far stranger than fiction. Erika Gibson sheds some light on a bizarre tale
25 July 2021 - 00:00
Serious questions have emerged about the reported “arrest” of a team of State Security Agency (SSA) operatives in Mozambique — and minister of state security Ayanda Dlodlo’s subsequent suspension of Robert McBride — after a routine field security issue was apparently blown out of proportion due to infighting and factional battles in the agency...
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