Sydney Mufamadi is Ramaphosa's security advisor...

The high-level review panel into the State Security Agency (SSA) by former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi found that billions of rand had been spent in setting up a parallel and illegal security structure which amounted to Zuma's personal protection agency...

As part of the reshuffle Mondli Gungubele a former deputy finance minister has been named Minister in the Presidency overseeing state security; Ramaphosa confidant Sydney Mufamadi is National Security Adviser; and Zizi Kodwa is deputy minister in the presidency responsible for the controversial SSA set up by Zuma with the purpose of protecting him from prosecution at vast expense to the taxpayer...

The system was described by former cabinet minister Sydney Mufamadi and Acting Director-General of Intelligence Loyiso Jafta...

Former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi testified last month on the findings of his investigations into the suborning of the State Security Agency (SSA) by Zuma to serve his personal interests and target his political opponents...

Former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi led the investigation into the State Security Agency (SSA) and delivered it to President Cyril Ramaphosa in December 2018...

He hit back at the report that found he had illegally used state funds to thwart the Ramaphosa leadership election campaign in 2017 and accused the committee reviewing the intelligence services headed by former ANC Police Minister Sydney Mufamadi of harbouring two apartheid spies...

Other Mbeki-allies such as former ministers Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and her husband Jabulani ('Jabu') Moleketi along with Thokozile Angela ('Thoko') Didiza Essop and Aziz Pahad and Sydney Mufamadi are keeping their cards close to their chests and Mbeki has not said whether he will publicly back COPE...

In early May a delegation led by South Africa's Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi met Mugabe the Electoral Commission and the MDC...

A delegate from the Sekhukhune region complained that Provincial Affairs Minister Sydney Mufamadi had offered jobs in exchange for pro-Mbeki votes...