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Parliament, Monday, 22 January 2024 – The Ad Hoc Committee on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) today held its first public hearing in the Musina Local Municipality in the Vhembe District, Limpopo.
Over 250 people attended the public hearings where they could make oral submissions on the Bill and other related matters. Most of the inputs were about security issues, especially issues related to cross-border crime and illegal migration that are affecting the area. The attendees also raised questions about whether the intelligence gathered by the intelligence services reached the South African Police Service, the South African National Defence Force, and the Border Management Agency that is responsible for border security.
The oral inputs also stressed the need for improved intelligence-driven policing in the area and residents called for an urgent increase in the number of police. They also called for soldiers to be deployed along the borders. These concerns are all linked to the Bill (GILAB) as it is evident that intelligence-driven border safeguarding requires effective intelligence services.
The committee will tomorrow continue with the public hearings at Nkowankowa Community Hall in the Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality in Limpopo.
ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE GENERAL INTELLIGENCE LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, MR JEROME MAAKE.
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