Pretoria News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils yesterday denied an accusation that he and former president Thabo Mbeki tried to discredit Billy Masetlha.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Former president Thabo Mbeki and former Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils have been accused of trying to discredit Billy Masetlha.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has rejected a report pertaining to the hoax email saga.
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
By Jessica BellRecommendations put forward by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to transform society after apartheid have not been followed.South Africans also "did not take the lessons of the TRC seriously enough", this was word from former minister of intelligence Ronnie Kasrils at the 10th anniversary of the TRC.Speaking at the first ever conference to redress and review the...
Commentary South Africa (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... which stuck in my mind was the history of the ANC’s top leaders, from Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma to Ronnie Kasrils, Mac Maharaj and ‘Terror’ Lekota. Through interviews with these leaders (excluding poor aging Madiba) and others, the different histories and profiles of the ANC’s top dogs are absolutely enthralling. The deep friendship developed between Mbeki and Zuma during their time...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... identified for monitoring.The three-person commission, appointed by former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils and disbanded this month, said in a report that the NCC "appears to be involved in signals monitoring that is unlawful and unconstitutional".It said interim operational procedures introduced by Kasrils did not address this concern.IGI Zolile Ngcakani told Sapa, however,...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... identified for monitoring.The Matthews Commission, appointed by former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils to review of South Africa's intelligence services, said the NCC would be acting unconstitutionally and unlawfully if it intercepted communication without judicial authorisation.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Report ordered by former minister Ronnie Kasrils that makes proposals to curb unconstitutional practices is likely to stay on the back burner, analysts say
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... executive committee (NEC) under Mbeki and was not made public.Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils testified this week against Masetlha, Madlala and Kunene. During his cross-examination of Kasrils Masetlha's advocate, Neil Tuchten, asked the former minister if he knew what had happened to the Loots report."I know that the report's findings were not accepted by the NEC...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
... by the shock resignations of former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former ministers Ronnie Kasrils (Intelligence), Sydney Mufamadi (Provincial and Local Government) and Essop Pahad (Presidency). Chief whip Booi dismissed suggestions that more MPs planned to jump ship as nothing more than “media reports”, but qualified this with the pragmatic undertaking to keep an open...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... by the shock resignations of former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former ministers Ronnie Kasrils (Intelligence), Sydney Mufamadi (Provincial and Local Government) and Essop Pahad (Presidency). Tshoganetso Gasebonwe (Northern Cape) has replaced former MP Tshepiso Ramphele, who was recently redeployed as a municipal manager.Booi dismissed suggestions that more MPs planned...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... convention organisers have been unwilling to name names but it is understood that former ministers Ronnie Kasrils, Sydney Mufamadi and Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, and her husband Jabu Moleketi, are among those on the invite list.The so-called Shikota party was given a boost on Thursday with the release of Thabo Mbeki's letter to ANC President Jacob Zuma.The letter has raised doubts...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... figures who will attend include Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana, former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, former public service minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and her husband, former deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi, former minister in the presidency Essop Pahad and former deputy minister of foreign affairs Aziz Pahad.The Western Cape, North West, Free State, Northern...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... TRC investigations head and now businessman Dumisa Ntsebeza, former minister of intelligence Ronnie Kasrils, UCT public health professor Leslie London, SA Human Rights Commission chairperson Jody Kollapen, and journalist Max du Preez.The conference coincides with the hearing in the United States of a class action court case brought by Khulumani, an apartheid victims' support group...
Backspin (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
It was bad enough when the Johannesburg Star published a nasty screed in April by South Africa's Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils. Red Ronnie's commentary (no longer online) blamed Israel for the 1982 Sabra and Shatilla massacre. Accompanying the column...
