About
Maritz Spaarwater was a senior member of various intelligence agencies in the apartheid era, first with Military Intelligence, and thereafter with the National Intelligence Service and the Constitutional Development Service. He holds degrees in law, international relations, international law and translation studies from the universities of Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Stellenbosch. He has practised law, is a sworn translator of the High Court and has dabbled in local and national politics.