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THE State Security Agency (SSA) said this week it had turned down a request from the DA to make public, the intelligence report relating to the unrest in Gauteng and Kwazulu-natal in July.

The DA had asked the SSA to hand over the report which then-state Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo claimed to have given to law enforcement officials before the incidents of looting and vandalism.

The SSA said it denied the request because the Presidency and Parliament were undertaking processes to probe what had led to the unrest. | African News Agency (ANA)

THE failure by the Concourt to provide greater clarity in its dismissal of the

IEC’S application to have local municipal elections postponed has done the country a disfavour, writes Sipho Seepe.

Courts exist to settle disputes. They are expected to do so in a clear and unambiguous manner. This helps to bring disputes to finality.

We expect nothing less from the Constitutional Court. It is, after all, the final arbiter to the country’s seeming intractable disputes. | IOL

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