Department of Defence Annual Report 2008-2009

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on DI to the Minister of Defence. The certicate
indicated some shortcomings in DI. These will be
attended to in the coming year. DI has continued with
the improvement of the collection of information.
Examples of the effort are the improved ability to
predict the position of vessels along the SA coastline
and the continuation of overt liaison as a collection
activity in countries of interest.
by both the private sector and other government
organisations. A new remuneration dispensation
for the SANDF was proposed to address this
challenge, but due to funding limitations it has not
been implemented yet. In the mean-time, the high
personnel turnover rate, as well as the low stafng
percentage, could negatively affect intelligence
production in the long term.
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DI continued to participate in the development
of the Further Education and Training Certicate
for Military Operations at National Qualication
Framework Level 4, and completed the programme
content for the Unit Standard “Describe Security
Awareness Practices within the South African
Statutory Environment”. Computer-based training
facilities were established at the South African DI
College that has commenced with the rollout of the
newly-registered National Qualication Framework
(NQF) Level 5 Certicate in Statutory Intelligence
Practice.
DI also encountered challenges in carrying out its
mission. The setting of training standards under
the auspices of the Standards Generating Body
for Statutory Intelligence remains a challenge.
Programme development, the registration of unit
standards and the revision of either qualications
or unit standards were addressed through a task
team concept, in which the interested role players
were co-opted within the task team to address the
requirements. This resulted in a pilot course that
was successfully presented over the period April to
December 2008. The course has, however, not yet
been accredited by the Safety and Security Sector
Education and Training Authority (SASSETA)
despite a verication visit in March 2009.
One of the major obstacles experienced by DI (the
lack of language capabilities needed to be conversant
in locally spoken languages) received attention
during the past year and groups of DI members
were trained in some of the most common languages
spoken in the areas where SANDF members were
deployed.
Despite these challenges, DI remained one of the
key role players in the South African Government’s
efforts to help stabilise Africa, and bring peace to
the continent through its international contacts
and good relationships with other intelligence
organisations, both within and outside the borders
of the RSA.
Purpose of the Programme
The DI Programme provides a defence intelligence
and counter-intelligence capability.
Subprogrammes
• Strategic Direction provides defence intelligence
policy, doctrine and intelligence advice in
support of the department’s decision-making
and policy-formulating processes.
• Operations provide defence prediction, and
intelligence and counter-intelligence capabilities
and services, to advise and inform clients on
time.
• DI Support Services provide human resources,
logistics, planning, security, labour relations,
training and information support services to the
defence intelligence community.
Measurable Objectives
• Provide a defence intelligence capability and
service.
• Provide a counter-intelligence capability and
service.
Output Detail
The aspects that are inuencing the retention of DI
members have not changed over the years. Qualied
DI members still exited the organisation, partly due
to discrepancies with remuneration packages offered
Table 8.1 below provides details on DI Programme
output, performance measures and targets, as
specied in the DOD’s Strategic Business Plan FY
2008/09.
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