South Africa/State Security Agency

South Africa/State Security Agency   (Intelligence agency)
Formation	May 2009
Parent organization	South Africa
Leader	SSA/Director-General

In May 2009, President Jacob Zuma announced the creation of the South Africa/State Security Agency (SSA) with the mandate to provide the government of South Africa with intelligence on domestic and foreign threats or potential threats to national stability, the constitutional order, and the safety and wellbeing of South African people. The SSA replaced the NIS.

SSA branches

The following structures were collapsed into the SSA as branches, with each branch led by a head, accountable to the Director-General:

• The National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
• The South African Secret Service (SASS)
• The South African National Academy of Intelligence (SANAI)
• The National Communications Centre (NCC)
• The Office for Interception Centres (OIC)
• Electronic Communications Security (Pty) Ltd (COMSEC)

SSA focus

Among the areas of focus of the SSA are the following matters of national interest:

• Terrorism, which refers to deliberate and premeditated attempts to create terror through symbolic acts involving the use or threats of lethal force for creating psychological effects that will influence a target group or individual and translate it into political or material results.

• Sabotage, which refers to activities or purposeful omissions conducted or planned for purposes of endangering the safety, security or defence of vital public or private property, such as installations, structures, equipment or systems.

• Subversion, which includes activities directed towards undermining by covert unlawful acts, or directed towards, or intended ultimately to lead to the destruction or overthrow by violence of the constitutionally established systems of government in South Africa.

• Espionage, which refers to unlawful or unauthorised activities conducted for acquiring information or assets relating to sensitive social, political, economic, scientific or military matters of South Africa or for their unauthorised communication to a foreign state.

• Organised Crime, which includes analysis of the origins and reasons behind organised crime, the identification of key role players, the nature and extent, as well as the modus operandi of organised crime syndicates.

SSA Director-General

The position of SSA Director-General since the restructure of the South African intelligence services in 2009 has been held by:

• 2009 – 2011 Mzuvukile Jeff Maqetuka
• 2011 – 2013 Dennis Thokozani Dlomo (acting DG)
• 2013 – 2016 Sonto Kudjoe
• 2016 – 2018 Arthur Fraser
• 2018 – 2021 Loyiso Jafta (acting DG)
• 2021 - 2022 Gab Msimanga (acting DG)
• 2022 - 2022 Thembisile Majola

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Did SA spies bomb UN boss’ plane?	Article	17 August 2015	De Wet Potgieter	Susan Williams writes that in this set of documents – headed ‘Top Secret’ and ‘Your Eyes Only’ – Allen Dulles, the then director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, had promised full cooperation with Operation Celeste, which had also been agreed with British intelligence agency MI6.
Document:UN to Probe Whether Iconic Secretary-General Was Assassinated	Article	1 August 2016	Colum Lynch	Susan Williams, who has studied SAIMR’s activities for years, said it would be a mistake to dismiss the papers’ authenticity out of hand. “I certainly would not discount the documents, which is why I went to so much trouble to find them,” she said. “Some of them may be what they are purported to be and some of them may not be what they are purported to be.”

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