Cables for apartheid-era bug found in mayor’s office
Cables for an old-fashioned electronic listening device used to tap telephones were discovered in the ceiling of Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Mongameli Bobani’s office.
The cables are for a listening device called a tamatie, frequently used by the security branch of the police during the apartheid era...
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