National Intelligence Agency (South Africa)

State Security Agency - Domestic Branch

National Intelligence Agency List 10 other official names: Nasionale Intelligensie Agentskap  (Afrikaans) IPhiko leliZweloke lobuHloli  (Southern Ndebele) I-Arhente yezoBuntlola beLizwe  (Xhosa) uPhiko lukaZwelonke lwezoBunhloli  (Zulu) Luphiko lweTebunhloli lwaVelonkhe  (Swati) Tirelo ya Bosetshaba ya Bohlodi  (Northern Sotho) Lekala la Bohlwela la Naha  (Sotho) Lekgotla la Botlhodi la Bosetshaba  (Tswana) Ejensi ya Vunhlori bya Tiko  (Tsonga) Dzhendedzi la Vhusevhi la Lushaka  (Venda)
Agency overview
Formed	January 1, 1994; 23 years ago (1994-01-01)
Preceding Agency	National Intelligence Service (NIS)
Headquarters	Musanda, Pretoria South Africa 28°18′24″S 25°51′02″E / 28.30667°S 25.85056°E / -28.30667; 25.85056
Employees	Classified 2500 estimated
Annual budget	Classified
Minister responsible	David Mahlobo
Agency executive	Bheki WJ Langa
Parent Agency	State Security Agency
Website	www.ssa.gov.za

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was the previous name of an intelligence agency of the South African government. Currently it is known as the Domestic Branch of the State Security Agency. It is responsible for domestic and counter-intelligence within the Republic of South Africa. The branch is run by a Director, who reports to the Director-General of the State Security Agency. The Director is also a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC).

The NIA was formed in 1994 following South Africa's first multi-racial elections. It was created to take over from the domestic intelligence segment of the then National Intelligence Service (NIS) with the foreign intelligence functions being taken over by the South African Secret Service (SASS). Both the SASS and NIA were created as part of the Intelligence Act of 1994. They were created out of the six intelligence organisations consisted of the NIS, Department of Intelligence and Security (ANC), Pan African Security Service (PAC), and the three intelligence services of Venda, Transkei and Bophuthatswana. These two new organisation's would consist of a total of 4000 people with 2130 from the NIS, 910 from DIS (ANC), 304 from Bophuthatswana Intelligence and Internal Security Service (BISS), 233 from Transkei Intelligence Service (TIS), 76 Venda National Intelligence Service (VNIS) and rest from the PASS (PAC).

The National Strategic Intelligence Act of 1994 defines the primary functions of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) as being to gather, correlate, evaluate and analyse domestic intelligence to:

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