Badge Military Intelligence Corps South Africa

From the middle of the nineteen-fifties political developments in Africa necessitated an extension of the intelligence section. The withdrawal of the colonial powers from Africa and the independence of African states were developments of great importance to South Africa, which had already begun to play a leading role on the continent. On the instruction of the serving Minister of Defence, Adv F.C. Erasmus, a sub-section was established within the intelligence section in February 1957, with the responsibility of collecting , interpreting and distributing intelligence of military and strategic value.