Monday, November 21, 2005

Zim and S.A. spy on NGO's

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I almost didn't read this article, since I don't really care if Zim and SA share spy information...then I wondered: What is worth spying on? Do they have WMD? (SA had the bomb in the bad old days, and now Zim has uranium...)...

But actually the story is worse than that...they are spying on NGO's....
Zimbabwe’s intelligence service is spying on aid organisations and “comparing notes” with South Africa in terms of a year-old pact. Zimbabwe’s Director of Intelligence, Aggrey Maringa, said in an interview this week that some non-government organisations were under the microscope of his agency. “It’s not every NGO. It’s some NGOs that we have identified,”...
Mutasa said after Thursday’s inaugural meeting of a joint commission on defence and security that foreign NGOs and journalists were the greatest threats to Zimbabwe’s stability. “We would like Europe please to keep your NGOs to yourselves,” he said.Hassen Lorgat, of the umbrella South African National Civics Organisation, said a “paranoia psychosis” was developing in Africa towards NGOs....

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