South Africa - Intelligence academy
A new South African National Academy of Intelligence, SANAI, was opened in Mafikeng, North West Province this month. Vice President Jacob Zuma, himself a former African National Congress intelligence chief, said the country needed "a high-class intelligence service" to counter threats of terrorism and other forms of violent extremism where intelligence needed to collect information in a covert way.
But the intelligence community ought to "define more appropriately what terrorism was" and not rely on other countries' definition, he said. More than ten years ago the ANC was referred to as a terrorist organisation, he recalled.
The academy, previously called Khupe Campus and now the Mzwandile Piliso college, will take 50 students at a time including some of its staffers. Courses will include a vocational and a research component and plans are underway to develop the structure into an institution of higher learning. Intelligence minister Lindiwe Sisulu closed the previous academy two years ago for restructuring.
SANAI was established late last year as a public entity to provide training to members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the South African Secret Service and related structures such as the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC) and the Presidential Support Unit.
Training on national strategic intelligence will also be provided to the intelligence components of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and the SA Police Service (SAPS).
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07 Avril 2003 à 15:05 dans
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