South Africa: EXPLAINED: Nine Things You Must Know About the Bombshell Report into Spies

 

The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa this weekend published a bombshell report by the high-level review panel into the State Security Agency, revealing damning evidence of how the SSA was repurposed to serve the political interests of former president Jacob Zuma and his cronies within the ANC. The panel was headed by Dr Sydney Mufamadi and drew on mounds of documents and interviews with former and current ministers, staff and operatives to conduct its review of the SSA. In essence, the panel attempted to answer a simple question: "What the hell happened?" Here are nine things you need to know about the report:

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