The National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee ( NICOC ) is the organisation responsible for co-ordinating the actions and activities of all of South African intelligence agencies , and collating the intelligence information received from them. It reports to Cabinet level via the Minister of State Security , and is similar to the British Joint Intelligence Committee .
6-797: 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: The South African General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill, 2011, sets out the structure of NICOC as: On 3 September 2014, State Security Minister David Mahlobo announced that the Head of the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee Dennis Dlomo, appointed to
12-601: Is the foreign ministry of the South African government . It is responsible for South Africa 's relationships with foreign countries and international organizations, and runs South Africa 's diplomatic missions . The department is headed by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation , currently Ronald Lamola . Prior to 1927, the British government attended to the external affairs of South Africa, though
18-675: The countries governors-general. A Department of External Affairs was created inside the prime minister's office on 1 June 1927. In 1931, the Statute of Westminster gave South Africa full sovereignty in regards to external affairs, and confirmed by the Status of the Union Act, 1934 . In 1955, a separate department was created, the Department of External Affairs with its own minister. Prior to that date, foreign affairs were conducted through
24-644: The latter did have its own trade commissioners that were sent to various countries. In November 1926, at the Imperial Conference , the various prime ministers of the Dominions attended, with conference negotiating what became the Balfour Declaration and an autonomy for the domains within a Commonwealth of Nations . The South Africans could now communicate with the commonwealth countries and others directly without communicating through
30-613: The office of the prime minister of South Africa. Later known as the Department of Foreign Affairs, it was renamed the Department of International Relations and Cooperation by President Jacob Zuma in May 2009. In the 2010 national budget, it received an appropriation of 4,824.4 million rand , and had 4,533 employees. According to OECD estimates, 2019 official development assistance from South Africa decreased to US$ 106 million. In 2022, when Cuba asked for humanitarian medical and food aid, AfriForum managed to obtain an interdict against
36-608: 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: This article about South African government is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Department of International Relations and Cooperation The Department of International Relations and Cooperation ( DIRCO )
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