New Age2.png NGOs on Mahlobo's radar State Security Minister says South Africa fertile ground for regime change, blames some non-governmental organisations Bonolo Selebano, The New Age, Johannesburg, 15 November 2016 South Africa has become contested terrain for regime change elements, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said yesterday. Speaking at an event hosted by the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) under the theme Can State Intelligence help prevent violent protests, Mahlobo said there were certain non-governmental organisations that were on the radar of the state security agency. Interception equipment "There are certain NGOs in South Africa, I know them too. One is the question of their funding and their funders doing certain things. Go to Midrand, go to Johannesburg, go to Cape Town. Why are they having interception equipment? Mhlobo said. He accused some of these NGOs of playing a role in fuelling the various student protests for fee-free higher education in the country. "What are they seeking to achieve, and let's not hide it, this is geopolitics of the world. Certain NGOs are planted here as a front. Those who are involved in illegal activities, we are engaging with them." Making reference to the #Feesmustfall movement, Mahlobo said the state security agency had been gathering intelligence on NGOs that had established links with university lecturers at some institutions of higher learning affected by the protests. Afro-Pessimisn masquerading as Pan-Africanism "There are certain lecturers in certain universities who have an agenda, working with certain NGOs. I have their names. They are teaching a false ideology. You know there's this new narrative where you say Pan-Africanism, but they are actually teaching Afro-pessimism," he said. Mahlobo, said that the government could ill afford to be naive to the tell-tale signs of regime change being effected in the country. "We see these things all over the world and we can't close our eyes. There are elements that want to get rid of this government. Governments can be changed but go through the ballot box," he said. Mahlobo also slammed opposition political parties of using genuine student concerns to advance their own narrow political agendas. "Students are raising a genuine concern around the issue of quality education. However, the genuine struggle for students gets exploited because political parties want to come in and score political points on a matter of national interest. "Education is what builds a society, but because politics is sometimes cheap, other people use those things against you instead of saying what can we do to actually increase our knowledge base." [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/15112016/epaperpdf/4.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14445 (20161115) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d23eff%2417104310%244530c930%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
