Moe Shaik

Head of the South African Secret Service

Moe Shaik is the Head of the South African Secret Service. Shaik has served in the internal underground structures of the Afircan National Congress where his duties involved the collection and analysis of intelligence at the coalface feeding into the African National Congress headquarters in Lusaka. In 1994 he was part of the Transitional Executive Council team that facilitated the amalgamation of services into the new dispensation of intelligence.

Shaik went on to serve as the Head of Ministerial Services to the Ministry of Intelligence Services. In 1998 he was then appointed as the South African Consul-General in Hamburg. He then became the South African Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Algeria. Between 2003 and 2004 he became the Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Head of Policy Research and Analysis Unit. His brother is Schabir Shaik, president Jacob Zuma's former Financial Adviser.