But it was an anonymous witness under police protection known only as Ms K who told Zondo that three successive Ministers of State Security under Zuma – Siyabonga Cwele David Mahlobo and Bongani Bongo – had transformed their ministry into a private force for advancing Zuma's security interests...

The key trials will be those of former President Jacob Zuma currently under way ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and 11 others on fraud and money-laundering charges and that of Zuma's former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo on various corruption charges (AC Vol 62 No 11 Fightback lands in the courts)...

' SuspensionsMagashule has been suspended on full pay along with some 30 other officials including former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo who faces corruption charges and heads a parliamentary committee...

In February Hlophe was criticised for dismissing on spurious grounds fraud charges against former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo a leading suspect in the state capture investigations...

Magashule and other senior officials such as former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo have refused to step aside claiming that the charges against them are 'politically motivated'...

His predecessor and successor as state security minister Siyabonga Cwele and Bongani Bongo were also key enablers the commission heard...

Former Minister of State Security Bongani Bongo a confidant of discredited Deputy President David Mabuza is still serving as a national MP even though he has been charged with bribery...

Former Minister and ANC executive member Nomvula Mokonyane former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo and former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane could be charged next...

Others deemed unsuitable by the commission include former state security Minister Bongani Bongo who has been charged with bribery and has stepped aside as an MP; former minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson; Beauty Dlulane; Ruth Bhengu; and former State Security Minister David Mahlobo; Thabang Makwetla former Minister of Correctional Services; former Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane and former ministers Faith Muthambi and Bathabile Dlamini head of the ANC Women's League...