The NdB Sunday Show | What Cyril knew before the Mkhwanazi presser…

In this edition of the NdB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and independent intelligence analyst Jasmine Opperman talk about testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that - six days before whistleblowing General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi called his bombshell press conference - President Cyril Ramaphosa had a verbal intelligence briefing in which he was warned of the criminal infiltration, a briefing from which the Intelligence Minister in his office recused herself because of Cabinet ministers being implicated. However, Opperman reveals that there had already been a warning years earlier that was not dealt with. “Was nothing then done because of the party loyalty within the State Security Agency?...It has imploded and it started under Zuma. And this is what I can't understand. It was captured under (President Jacob) Zuma and under President (Cyril) Ramaphosa. Mr. President, I'm saying this with all respect, it has just continued because you were not assertive enough in terms of getting to a solution..” She urges the Madlanga Commission not to finish its jobs without also calling in the intelligence structures. Meanwhile, Opperman describes what it will take to rebuild a credible intelligence service in South Africa.