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As Kenya continues to bolster security in
response to the terrorist attack on a Nairobi
mall, the DA has called for assurance that
everything is being done to protect South
Africa from a similar fate.
DA spokesman for state security Dirk
Stubbe said news of a local investigation
into al-Shabaab activity in the country was
cause for concern.
The Islamic militant group has claimed to
be behind the attack on the Westgate
shopping mall in Nairobi, where gunmen
killed dozens of people.
Last week, it was revealed that the Hawks’s
Crimes Against the State Unit had been
investigating alleged recruitment and fund-
raising for the group in South Africa for at
least the past year. Six months ago, it was
widely reported that the same group was
also running a training camp in the
country.
“I’m just going to say where there’s smoke
there’s fire… Last week it was a mall in
Kenya, the next it could just as easily be
one of our own,” said Stubbe. “We cannot
sit back and allow South Africa to become a
destination of choice for terrorists.”
The DA plans to issue a request that
ministers in the justice, crime prevention
and security clusters urgently brief the joint
standing committee on intelligence on the
investigation into so-called “White Widow”
Samantha Lewthwaite. Speculation has
placed the wanted woman, who used
forged travel documents between 2008 and
2011, at the centre of the attack on the
Kenyan mall.
However, Minister of Home Affairs Naledi
Pandor has stated that Kenyan authorities
have not linked the attack to the British
woman.
Stubbe hoped the briefing would help
synchronise investigations into terrorist
activity in South Africa, with local
authorities starting to work closely together
to prevent a potential threat.
Meanwhile, the body of James Thomas, the
57-year-old Cape Town man who was killed
during the mall attack – has been flown to
South Africa.
His son-in-law, Scott Lee-Jones, said the
businessman, who had been conducting
training in Kenya as part of his work for the
Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, had been
shot three times. A funeral service for
Thomas will take place at the Bishops
Diocesan College chapel in Rondebosch on
Wednesday.