Board of Governors

Errol D Peace - Chairman

During his seventeen years in the Johannesburg Traffic Department, Errol started his training career, which has spanned for 34 years. He has been actively involved with training in a variety of different areas, including Retail Security, Management, Fraud Investigation, Occupational Health and Safety and Life Skills Programmes.

Errol is an Accredited Fraud Examiner and has been a member of SASA for more than ten years. He has served on the Event Security task team of the SASETA SGB.

John Kole – Vice Chairman

John is currently a lecturer in the department of Criminology and Security Science (in the programme Security Management) at UNISA. He has M Tech degree in Security Management, B Tech degree in Security Risk Management and diplomas in Security Management, Security Supervision and Human Resources Management. John is currently doing his PhD in Security Management with UNISA.

He has worked as a Security Co-ordinator for SASOL Oil and as Security Manager for Carolina Tobacco Company, where he was responsible for the formulation and management of security strategies, policies and proceedures. Prior to this, he was Chief Protection Officer at AngloGold Ashanti where he supervised the Control Room and mobile units.

Peter Jephson – Treasurer

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Terry Scallan

Terry has been a member of the Institute since 2000, when he started as a Junior Graduate. In 2005, he was appointed to the Board of Governors and was very active in membership recruitment, security education, training and development. He was also the convenor of the verification committee and was instrumental in establishing relaitons with the UK Security Institute.

Terry is an appointed member of the Private Security Chamber at SASSETA.

Terry has been in the security environment for over 25 years. He took early retirement from the South African National Defence Force in 1997 after completing the SA Air Force Command and Staff Course. Terry has been a security consultant, the general manager of a guarding company and a security training consultant. He is presently the Managing Director of BTC Training, Johannesburg and a member of Power Corporate Consultants and Associates.

Buddy Anderson

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Michael Broughton

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Prof. Kris Pillay is the immediate past Chairperson and is a Fellow of the South African Institute for Security.

In 2002, he was presented with two prestigious awards by the International Institute for Security and Safety Management, namely the International Security Practitioner of the Year and a Special Recognition Award for the most Valuable Contribution and Support to the promotion of professionalism with the security industry.

In 2003 he was nominated as Security Practitioner of the Year for the Johannesburg region by the South African Security Association.

He has presented a number of academic papers at various international conferences and published widely on criminal justice and security related issues in scientific journals. Most recently, he has had the honour of being elected to the UNISA council.

Gert Pretorius (Colonel, retired)

After retiring from the SA National Defence Force Gert qualified with SASSETA as an assessor and moderator.  

As a training consultant and associate of Power Corporate Consultants, he is currently acting as facilitator for various security unit standards.  He also conducted crime intelligence courses for clients in the mining industry. Gert was also previously involved as part of a project team of NICDAM (National Institute of Community Development and Management) to design crime prevention strategies for a provincial government.

Tim de Bruyn

Tim is National Training Manager for Enforce Training Academy, managing a learnership of over 1 000 security officers.

He has many years' experience in this sector and has completed numerous training courses and qualifications related to fire safety, firearm competency, retail security, aviation security, cash in transit security and armed response. He is a registered assessor and moderator with SASSETA and a Graduate Member of the SA Institute of Security.

Wessel Kritzinger

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Francois Marais

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David Miller

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Bruce Robertson

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Grahame Wright

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Aidan Lippstreau

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John Baker

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Gavriel Schneider

Gavriel Schneider is a Director and founding partner of the Dynamic Alternatives Group (DAG), a Specialised Security Services and Training organisation with offices in South Africa, Australia, the UK and India.

Gavriel has over a decade of operational close protection and specialist security experience, and specialises in Unarmed Combat and defensive tactics – in which he has over 25 years’ practical experience. He has worked and/or trained on five continents and presented training to Presidential protection units, Special Forces, operational CPOs, Law enforcement personnel, reaction teams and various other security operators.

The first recipient of a Masters degree in Security Risk Management from UNISA, Gavriel also holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a graduate Diploma in Marketing and Management. He is an ASIS CPP and has a Diploma in Security Management from the Australian Security Academy, and is the author of Beyond the Bodyguard: a guide to protective practices success.

Mike is a corporate member of SASA (Security Association of South Africa) and Graduate Member of SAIS, where he is ETD specific advisor.

Reggie Marimuthu

Reggie Marimuthu chaired the Transmission Communications Services Committee while being a Director (Brigadier) of the South African Police. He was also the head of Detective Services, and resigned after 23 years when he was head hunted to take up a position with the South African Postal Services as a General Manager. He was the National Head of Security and Investigations Division. Throughout his career he has had a special interest in communications, experiencing the impact of instant and effective communication systems from a security point of view. He often assisted the Department of Communication Services, especially in rural areas. Realising the huge scope in the communications industry, Reggie joined forces with his co-directors to provide a full and comprehensive service to meet the standards as set by the Minister during 1997. He was also the past Chairman of the International Police Association (Head Office).He was the chairman of the S.A. Institute of Security and he served the institute from 1996. He was also appointed Fellow of the institute and awarded life membership for the Institute. He received an award for (SERVICE ABOVE SELF), He is also responsible for all fundraising events for S.A.I.S. He is currently a Chief Executive Officer at Etleimu(Pty)Ltd. Reggie was born in Durban and moved to Pretoria in 1991, and is now married with four children.

Rosemary Cowan [Administrator]

Rosemary has been involved in the security industry since leaving school when her first job was for Chubb Lock and Safe Company at the time when it was still a family concern.

She emigrated to South Africa in December 1989 and has been working for the Institute since May 1990 when her father, Frank Sims was the Administrator. Following his death in July 1997, she took over his position as Administrator for both the Security Association of South Africa (SASA) as well as the South African Institute of Security (SAIS).

She left the Security Association in July 2006 after 16 years service, but has continued as the current Administration Manager for SAIS. She has recently been awarded Honorary Membership of the Institute in recognition of her work over the past 17 years.