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Ramaphosa suspends Inspector-General of Intelligence

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President Cyril Ramaphosa

16th October 2025

By: Thabi Shomolekae

Creamer Media Senior Writer

     

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Inspector-General of Intelligence Imtiaz Fazel, with immediate effect, pending a decision in the investigation by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) into the Inspector-General’s conduct.

The JSCI informed Ramaphosa of a complaint it received on Fazel’s conduct, which it is investigating according to the Intelligence Services Act.

“Section 7(5) of the Act provides that ‘if the Inspector-General is the subject of an investigation by the (JSCI) in terms of subsection (4), he or she may be suspended by the President pending a decision in such investigation’,” said Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.

Fazel was appointed as the Inspector-General of Intelligence on November 1, 2022.

He is a former chief operating officer - at the level of deputy director-general - in the Office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and a former deputy director-general in the Office of the Director-General of the State Security Agency.

Edited by Sashnee Moodley
Polity and Multimedia Managing Editor

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