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The Security Branch of the South African Police, established in 1947 as the Special Branch, [1] [2] was the security police apparatus of the apartheid state in South Africa. From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was one of the three main state entities responsible for intelligence gathering, the others being the Bureau for State Security ...
- State Security Agency (South Africa)
The following branches make up the State Security Agency:...
- State Security Agency (South Africa)
Security Branch may refer to: Security Branch (South Africa), a defunct police unit also known as the Special Branch. Security Bureau (Hong Kong) A former name of the Canadian Forces Military Police. Category: Disambiguation pages.
The Security Branch of the South African Police, established in 1947 as the Special Branch, was the security police apparatus of the apartheid state in South Africa.
The mandate of the SSA is to provide the government with intelligence on domestic and foreign threats or potential threats to national stability, the constitutional order, and the safety and well being of our people. Examples of such threats are terrorism, sabotage and subversion.
In the 1960s, after the Soweto massacre, the Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, granted the Security Branch wide powers to track down, detain and torture suspected activists and opponents of apartheid. Police spies infiltrated underground organizations (such as the ANC* and PAC* that had been banned, as well as the re-formed SACP*).
Functions and Mandate. The Foreign Branch (former South African Secret Service - SASS) is a national intelligence structure established by the intelligence Service Act 38 of 1994 and whose continued existence if provided for in the Intelligence Services Act 65 of 2005. Since September 2009, SASS has changed in status and is now a government ...
