South African intelligence service decorations

An overview of South African intelligence service decorations and medals, which form part of the South African honours system.

It became a separate service, the Bureau for State Security, in 1968, and was renamed the Directorate of National Security in 1979 and the National Intelligence Service in 1980.

A series of decorations and medals was instituted for the NIS in 1981.

The NIS was superseded in 1994 by the National Intelligence Agency and the South African Secret Service.

A new series of decorations and medals was instituted in 2005 for members of the National Intelligence Agency and the South African Secret Service (collectively referred to as the "Intelligence Services"):