Ayanda Dlodlo

thumb|Ayanda Dlodlo Ayanda Dlodlo (born 22 May 1963) Is a South African politician and former cabinet minister. A former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, she became a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress (ANC) in 2009. Thereafter, she was appointed Minister of Communications (2017), Minister of Home Affairs (2017–2018), Minister of Public Service and Administration (2018–2019, 2021–2022), and Minister of State Security (2019–2021). Quotes You are across the road. You can see what is happening. You don’t need state security for that Ayanda Dlodlo ‘warned government of violence before Zuma was jailed’,23 February 2022 The law enjoins me as Minister of Intelligence to exercise oversight and ultimate executive authority over all intelligence matters of the country – such oversight responsibility would be near impossible to achieve without information at my disposal - the least I am entitled to is a full disclosure of all intelligence information in the agency so that I can exercise my custodial responsibility as Minister of State Security We have on a previous occasion successfully asked for indulgence from the chair in respect of the Inspector General’s testimony to the commission and so this was not malicious nor an intention to frustrate the work of the commission The work to rebuild and restore the credibility of the agency is underway in line with the recommendations of the High Level Review Panel and I cannot be the one to circumvent such efforts as some seem to suggest For as long as I hold the constitutional responsibility of being a custodian of national security, I will spare no effort in safeguarding matters of national security and to put measures in place to prevent acts of corruption from happening in the system Minister Ayanda Dlodlo continues to observe proceedings of State Capture Commission,27 January 2021 These intelligence briefings and alerts were provided to the SA Police Service before and during the unrest. But I might also clarify it was not only to the SAPS but to NatJoints, which is chaired by SAPS and co-chaired by SSA and the Department of Defence I need to record that the intelligence reports and alerts that I refer to in my submission are not in my possession and they are classified. I do not have the authority to declassify any documents as they are in the possession and under direct control of the acting director-general of SSA [I]f my colleagues did not get updates from their own departments, I can hardly be held accountable and responsible [for that] some red alerts, some yellow and some orange. All of these go to the structures I have mentioned here to enable them to plan. So [the SSA, when I was still there] did warn about growing instability that undermined the authority of the state Ignore the theatric claims of intelligence failures before July unrest, says Ayanda Dlodlo, describing a competent SSA,22 Feb 2022 External links Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Women politicians in South Africa Category:Government ministers of South Africa Category:African National Congress politicians