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As a concerned citizen, this is what was shocking in today's testimony at the #MadlangaCommission Dr Ntandazo Sifolo, acting head of NICOC (the body that coordinates ALL of SA's intelligence agencies), finally testified in public: 1⃣ "If we don't do anything now, the country is gone." That was his description of the situation. He said even the head of Crime Intelligence had effectively surrendered. 2⃣ Intelligence had broken down. In early 2025 the agencies were sending NICOC fragmented reports on kidnappings, targeted killings, drug trafficking, extortion and gunrunning. So in Feb 2025 NICOC took over coordination of SAPS Crime Intelligence, Defence Intelligence and the State Security Agency. 3⃣ The watchdog refused to stand down. On 11 Feb 2025 the minister conveyed NICOC's request for the Inspector-General of Intelligence to pause oversight probes into ongoing operations. Sifolo says the IG did not comply. 4⃣ IG & IDAC accused. Sifolo says intelligence later showed the Inspector-General and IDAC, "wittingly or unwittingly", frustrated efforts to clean up the criminal justice system. 5⃣ Red flags everywhere. Classified IG reports were being leaked, and senior police officers were being arrested by their own colleagues. He called these clear signs that the system was in deep trouble. 6⃣ Ramaphosa knew first. NICOC briefed President Ramaphosa on 30 June 2025 about the arrests of senior Crime Intelligence officials, 6 days BEFORE Gen. Mkhwanazi's explosive 6 July press briefing. We are in trouble bahlali 7⃣ Why Mkhwanazi went public. Sifolo said honest officers had few options left but to rally public support and expose the crisis. That, he said, was part of the thinking behind the 6 July briefing. 8⃣ Politics + the underworld = a national security threat. He named the growing links between politicians and organised crime, including political killings, as a major threat to the state. #NICOC #IDAC #Mkhwanazi #PoliceCrisis