Who Am I?

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Andre in a suit

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Andre ZAAIMAN is Director: Research and Innovation at the ACSIP Lab (The African Center for Security and Intelligence Praxis). ACSIP – a progressive, African-centered organization – focuses on training and systems development in Intelligence and Warning Analysis.

Andre is a former senior official in the State Security Agency of the democratic South Africa and focuses on training and consultancy work in Strategic Intelligence and Early Warning Analysis.He worked in the underground and intelligence service of the African National Congress during the struggle against apartheid and subsequently, served in the Presidential Support Unit under former President Thabo MBEKI. He was a member of a 5-person Strategic Think Tank for the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles ZENAWI until his death in 2012. Andre lived and worked in West Africa for 12 years.

As a Director of MindSight; a private company, he has helped to developed GermShield: an Early Detection and Response System for nosocomial infections that is currently being tested in a major South African private Hospital. This system is based on machine intelligence. He has also just completed (2014) a stint as an Advisor to the then Minister of Public Service and Administration (Lindiwe SISULU) in South Africa.

In his early youth he spent a few years in the South African Bushveld learning, studying and educating visitors about animal tracking, bushcraft, bird identification, the life of termites and dung beetles as well as the habits of the Big Cats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 Replies to “Who Am I?”

  1. Hello – I am a researcher trying to contact Eldred de Klerk, who I believe is attached to the Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence – I would appreciate his email details – thank you

  2. Hello Wim! Hoe gaan dit? My CV noem alles wat ek gedoen het en waar ek grswerf het: dis teen die Wet om dit nie die se nie. My Resume en Website beskryf wie ek is; n Afrikaner wat by die ANC aangesluit het op n jong ouderdom – kyk maar na die fotos op die Site…my onderonsies met DG Van Dalsen as n kadet het nie n normenswaardige impak gehad op wie ek is nie…waar is jy deesdae?

  3. Jy kan ook na n paar TV onderhoude en dokumentere kyk as jy meer wil sien – Eat My Call Up was al n paar keer op die SABC – daar is ook verskeie artikels…ek vind die tranedal van hoe n Afrikaner by die ANC uitgekom het vervelig na al die herhalings van die selle ou storie…

  4. Nee wat, ek le maar laag hier op die wal van die magtige Troe-Troe rivier, oorkant die begrafplaas, maar die onlangse vloed het my toekoms beplanning deurmekaar gekrap.
    Ek sou dink dit moes eerder die onderonsie met Evert Riekert ‘n rigting gewende invloed op ‘n jong gemoed wat vermelding op jou CV verdien.
    Maar dit was juis jou foto saam met Arafat op jou CV wat my na onlangse verwikkelinge aan jou laat dink het,
    Jou CV met die ANC sedert ek jou laas in Bloemfontein gesien het is indrukwekkend maar dan kom Steinbeck se woorde by my op: “the best laid plans of mice and men hath gone astray”.
    Ek is bevrees dat enige saak waarby Squirrell en sy umthondos betrokke raak sal net in ‘n groter kak spul ontaard, en my ou universteit vriend Ali uit Ramala, wat deur die Zioniste sy exit visa gegee is, verdien dit nie.

    Bly jy nog in die Karoo of het jy nou onder ou antie Zille&kie se vlerke gaan skuil?

  5. Ek is juis op pad Karoo toe; bly al jarre lank in die Kaap: Natte, ANC, DA maak nie eintlik n verskil nie – “boer” in die Karoo (lol) waar ek gebore is: familie is innie Kaap en Karoo…ANC bestaan nie meer nie…dis maar net n naam…ja ek vergeet dit was eers Riekert en toe Van Dalsen … heel komies en amusant… wat was die naam van daai plek waar ons Sloppy Joe’s geeet het? Tyd vlieg ne…het jy nog jou woeste en defiant snorrr?!

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