Issued by Daniela Ellerbeck on behalf of the FW de Klerk Foundation:
On Friday, 28 March 2025, the President signed the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, generally referred to as the “GILAB”, into law. (It is now called the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Act.) The Act, amongst other things, implements the Presidential High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency’s 2018 recommendation that the State Security Agency be split into two separate services: A domestic and a foreign service.
“The Act that was assented to is the very much reworked version passed by Parliament on 16 May 2024,” says Daniela Ellerbeck an attorney and the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Constitutional Rights Programme Manager.
In early 2024, Parliament opened the first version of the Act (then known as the Bill) for public comment. This initial version sparked massive public outcries, because it would have given the South African intelligence services carte blanche to decide whom to subject to invasive vetting investigations. This would have infringed directly upon various constitutional rights, such privacy and access to justice (sections 14, 34 and 38 of the Constitution).
“This is a success story of the power of public participation,” explains Ellerbeck. “Because the public participated, Parliament listened to the people and made the required substantive changes, including the changes the Foundation requested.”
The FW de Klerk Foundation believes that the new Act in its current form is a testimony to constructive public participation in action and thanks everyone who participated in this public participation process…continue reading this article HERE.
Sipo Mzimela: {1994 – 1996} Mzimela was appointed as the first Minister of Correctional Services in the new democratic government, focusing on reforming the correctional system and improving conditions in prisons.
Snout Pixie
The cab driver feels compelled to flesh the story out, as its just the husband he\’s talking to.
\”yeah I remember that last shore leave in Johannesburg, me and the lads gagging for some action, end up in a dive bar and met this girl, we got a room and she was the the worst fuck I\’ve ever had!\”
The wife says \”what did he say?\”.
Husband \”the cab driver he says he might know you!\”
Shay
So I\’m real good friends with this guy named Juan Ted. Now, Juan is a pretty astonishing guy. He can steal ANYTHING he wants to. Literally anything. It could be the shirt off your back, the wallet in your pocket, or I\’m even sure he\’d find a way to steal your house (And your spouse too). So anyway, one day Juan and I are sitting around watching TV, and they announced that the hope diamond will not be on display anymore and is now getting moved to an undisclosed location. So as we hear this, Juan says \”I\’m gonna steal it\”. Now I know how good Juan is at this kind of stuff, so I just tell him good luck and he goes on his way. Eventually he narrows his search down to a small cave in South Africa. When Juan gets there, he doesn\’t see any guards or anything outside the cave, so he just walks in assuming he was wrong about where the diamond was. He wanders around for a while until he sees a long lit hallway with the hope diamond at the end of it. Confident in his abilities, he strolls over to the diamond and picks it up before realizing its a trap! Suddenly, red lights flashed, armed men came running out, sirens went off. You could hear one of the men say under his breath \”We finally caught Juan Ted.\” But Juan, being the best thief in the world, said \”Not quite. On the count of three, I will disappear.\” As the men looked around confused, Juan began to count. \”Uno. Dos.\” And he disappeared without a tres.