No need to ask foreign intelligence services for help - Ntshavheni
Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has reiterated that government will never seek foreign intelligence assistance to quell acts of unrest.
Ntshavheni briefed the media on the recent spate of violence and looting in Pretoria on Tuesday.
The state of the country's security and intelligence services have come under scrutiny following its inability to prevent or stop the incidents of looting and civil unrest.
"No country can outsource its foreign intelligence service and if we outsource foreign intelligence services to any other country, we may as well outsource this country and we are not going to ask assistance from foreign intelligence services," said Ntshavheni.
"Within our own government we have got capacity of intelligence services and whether that capacity performs optimally or not. We will do a post-mortem on that."
Ntshavheni added the South African National Defence Force has the capability to protect the country from external threats.
"The military of this country has displayed over and again that they have the capacity to protect this country.
"That is why when they got in, within 48 hours the situation was stabilised and we are here because when the military rolled in, everything went back to normal quickly enough."
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