South Africa

Since it's a lazy Sunday who's up for a word association game? Okay great, the first word is : spy. Hmm okay lets see I get words like - stealthy, cunning, wily, smart, devious, undetectable, crafty etc. How about you? Now let's make things a little more interesting and take a look at the fine work our nations "intelligence experts" are doing. Remember the blow-up over the illegal surveillance of Saki Macozoma? Well here are some "highlights" about how the so-called surveillance went down :

The report also criticises the NIA for bungling the surveillance of Macozoma.

It says the presence of NIA operatives around Macozoma’s house was “picked up almost immediately” by the police, the businessman’s security personnel and his wife. But the agents continued the operation for the next three days, unaware that they had been discovered.

“The surveillance team did not discover that they themselves were being monitored by a private security company and the SAPS, who were alerted to the presence of strangers in the area,” the report said. The spies also used their personal vehicles rather than untraceable NIA vehicles...

 

Now lets play the same game using the word : NIA. Hmm I get things like incompetent, illegal, idiots, blatant, ridiculous, like a sore thumb...