BusinessDay.gif
Foreign forces are seeking to destabilise SA, says Mahlobo
Wyndham Hartley, Business Day, 26 April 2016
Foreign agencies are hard at work in SA seeking to destabilise the country,
with help from domestic forces that are knowingly or unknowingly
collaborating, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said on Tuesday.
Introducing his budget vote speech to the National Assembly, Mr Mahlobo said
attempts had been made in various countries, such as Libya and Syria, to
cause instability in SA.
"Some of these foreign agencies are hard at work to destabilise us, working
with domestic forces who are wittingly and unwittingly collaborating," Mr
Mahlobo said.
He said as a maturing constitutional democracy, SA must be in a position to
deal decisively with whatever challenges the country faced in its governance
framework, whether it be economic, social or political issues.
"We must never yield to some domestic and international forces that might
harbour intentions of creating conditions conducive to unconstitutional
change of government," said Mr Mahlobo.
"Globally, we have a number of emerging threats that have been elevated in
terms of our tradecraft ranging from countering international terrorism,
radicalisation and violent extremism, economic meltdown, environmental
degradation, forced migration, food security, unconstitutional regime
change, colour revolution, nonstate actors in drug trafficking,
proliferation of arms and ammunition, money laundering, financial crime and
illicit economy," he said.
However, Mr Mahlobo said despite the deterioration of global security, "as
security agencies we have concluded that we remain relatively stable as a
country and the Sadc (Southern African Development Community) region."
He said the State Security Agency remained vigilant because "our national
security threats do not play themselves in a vacuum but come into a sharper
focus within a specific context".
"The geopolitics of the world wherein unilateralism, regime change,
marginalisation of youth and minorities, political and religious dynamics,
failure to resolve conflicts and market capitalism has lost its glowing
spark. These are the challenges of our time."
From:
http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/04/26/foreign-forces-are-seeking-to-de
stabilise-sa-mahlobo-says
--
--
You are subscribed. This footer can help you.
Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this
message.
You can visit the group WEB SITE at
http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options,
pages, files and membership.
To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You
don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put
anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this
address (repeat): [email protected] .
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"YCLSA Discussion Forum" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
