National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee

The functions of the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee, as outlined in the document in 2008 by the Ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence, are to:{{cite web | url=http://cdn.mg.co.za/uploads/final-report-september-2008-615.pdf | title=Intelligence in a Constitutional Democracy | publisher=Mail & Guardian | work=Ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence | accessdate=8 February 2015}}

• Co-ordinate the intelligence collected by the South African intelligence services;
• Interpret the intelligence collected to identify and detect threats to South African national security;
• co-ordinate and prioritise intelligence activities within the national intelligence structures;
• prepare and interpret intelligence estimates;
• make recommendations to Cabinet on intelligence priorities.

The South African General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, 2011, sets out the structure of NICOC as:{{Cite web |url=http://d2zmx6mlqh7g3a.cloudfront.net/cdn/farfuture/7TrxbDKmYUARbzqmK9nreAdUsQ_yCICvusd-gXkkXkw/mtime:1381381054/files/130416bversion_of_bill.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020074034/http://d2zmx6mlqh7g3a.cloudfront.net/cdn/farfuture/7TrxbDKmYUARbzqmK9nreAdUsQ_yCICvusd-gXkkXkw/mtime:1381381054/files/130416bversion_of_bill.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-20 |url-status=dead }}

• The Co-ordinator for Intelligence.
• The Director-General of the State Security Agency.
• The Director or Head of the domestic intelligence division known previously as the National Intelligence Agency.
• The Director or Head of the foreign intelligence division known previously as the South African Secret Service.
• The Head of the Crime Intelligence Division of the South African Police Service.
• The Chief of the South African National Defence Force Intelligence Division.
• The Director of the Financial Intelligence Centre.

On 3 September 2014, State Security Minister David Mahlobo announced that the Head of the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee Dennis Dlomo, appointed to the role in 2013, has been “redeployed” to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

The following people have held the position of Co-ordinator since the restructure of the South African intelligence services in 1994:

• 1995 – 1996 Mo Shaik{{cite book|last=Sanders|first=James|title=Apartheid's Friends. The Rise and Fall of South Africa's Secret Services.|year=2006|publisher=John Murray(Publishers)|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0719566752}}{{rp|347}}
• 1996 – 2001 Linda Mti{{rp|347}}
• 2001 – 2005 Jeff Maqetuka{{rp|347}}
• 2005 – 2007 Barry Gilder{{rp|347}}{{cite news|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2007-10-02-mbeki-appoints-new-intelligence-coordinator |title=Mbeki appoints new intelligence coordinator |work=Mail&Guardian|date=2007-10-02 |accessdate=2015-02-08}}
• 2007 – ???? Silumko Sokupa.
• 2013 – 2014 Dennis Dlomo {{cite news|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-02-cwele-announces-new-appointments-in-intelligence|title=Cwele announces new appointments in intelligence|work=Mail&Guardian|date=2013-08-02 |accessdate=2015-02-08}}{{cite news|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-06-ssa-defends-zumas-axing-of-spooks |title=SSA defends Zuma's axing of spooks |work=Mail&Guardian|date=2014-09-06 |accessdate=2015-02-08}}
• 2015 - 2016 Dr Clinton Swemmer (PhD) (acting?){{Cite news |url=http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/860813/repatriation-not-solution-to-xeno-violence/ |title='Repatriation not solution to xeno violence' |date=28 Nov 2016 |publisher=The Citizen |publication-date=10 Sep 2015 |agency=ANA}}
• 2016 - 2017 Dr Mike Masiapato (PhD) (acting)
• 2017 - to date Ambassador Gab Msimang

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110518201120/http://www.nia.gov.za/ NIA pages, see "The Intelligence Community"]

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