New secret cables leaked to Al Jazeera show that the two spy arms’ state security committee came up with the joint action plan for 2011-2012 at a five star hotel in Zimbabwe’s resort town of Victoria Falls on 29-30 October 2011.
The plan, among other things, comprised monitoring activities “aimed at subverting constitutional order” within the targeted institutions.
The plan would include the identification, profiling and assessment of NGOs “engaged in subversive activities” and the monitoring would be done between March 31 2012 and August 31 2012.
The spook agencies, working through the Joint Intelligence Task Team (JITT) of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security agreed to monitor the financing, regulation, political agenda, the pressure exerted and influence on national policy by the organisations.
They also resolved to “identify and neutralise activities of information peddlers”, complete with a data base on those distributing information.
The action plan also entailed monitoring and exchanging information on the media, including social networks.
The new cables shed further light on the joint activities between South Africa and Zimbabwe in monitoring and counteracting civil and political activities within the two countries.
In 2010, the South African intelligence collaborated with their counterparts to illegally extradite Zimbabwean nationals, some of who were subsequently killed by police once they got into the country.
They are believed to have been political activists.
The South African Hawks falsified extradition documents to ensure the Zimbabweans were deported.
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