Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tsakanin 1969 da 1981, sashen ya kasance na yanayi na musamman tare da ma'aikatan da aka samo daga Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), rundunar sojan ANC. A cikin waɗannan shekarun rawar sashen ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin tsaro da ƙin yarda. A shekarar 1981 an nemi sabon shugaban Ma'aikatar Leken Asiri da Tsaro ta Kasa, wanda ke zaune a Lusaka, Zambia tare da aikin da aka ba Mzwai Piliso, mutumin da ke da alhakin kafa sansanonin ANC a Angola bayan 1975 kuma wanda ya dauki sabbin da suka tsere daga Afirka ta Kudu bayan rikicin Soweto na 1976
Ka yi haƙuri. Mataimakinsa kuma shugaban leken asirin zai kasance Peter Boroko (aka Peter Lesego Tshikare), shugaban Tsaro shi ne Reddy Mazimba (aka Reddy Mampane) kuma shugaban Gwamnati shi ne Sizakele Sigxashe. Daga 1981, an tsara ma'aikatan tare da horarwa a cikin leken asiri da ke faruwa a Tarayyar Soviet, Gabashin Jamus, Libya da Zimbabwe.