Pieter du Toit | A fight worth having: SSA must not win its bid to keep capture trial secret

Author: Pieter du ToitPublished on: October 22, 2026Country: South Africa
PoliticsCrime & Law

Pieter du Toit argues that South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA) must not succeed in keeping the state-capture trial secret. He describes opposing the agency’s bid as a fight worth having in the interests of transparency and the public. The supplied excerpt gives no details of the SSA’s legal arguments or the trial itself.

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