DIS: The feared ‘creature’ in need of oversight

More than a decade later the DIS remains a feared ‘creature’ in need of oversight. Now, more than ever, the DIS is cloaked in mystery and for Batswana it is often regarded as the definitive spy organisation whose powers and capabilities are almost limitless.

Amongst others, the role of the DIS is to investigate, gather, co-ordinate, evaluate, correlate, interpret, disseminate and store information, whether inside or outside Botswana, for the purposes of detecting and identifying any threat or potential threat to national security, reads the DIS Act.