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ABSTRACT: South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned; an analysis of how tiny the South African Police force in reality was by international standards, also given the vast territory they had to cover and their onerous ne
Nongqai series the development of Intelligence Science in South Africa No 7
ABSTRACT: Nongqai eMagazine and Akademia are cooperating in the preservation and indexing of Nongqai’s archive of back issues dating from 2010. At a function on the Akademia campus on 26 March 2024, entrusting the Nongqai collection to Akad
Third extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This episode explains the complex history of South Africa’s internal conflict. Was “Apartheid” South Africa uniquely racist, in the world colonial context? What was the role of white South Africa’s security and intelligence community in the transition to a non-racial democracy.
Dr Willem Steenkamp, son of former SAP-SB CO Maj-Gen Frans Steenkamp, and himself a former NIS officer who did his doctoral thesis on the intelligence function, as well as being a novelist, ambassador, attorney, entrepreneur and polyglot with wide experience of living abroad, and currently the co-editor and business manager of Nongqai magazine, shares his experiences and insights into South Africa’s transition. He gives his personal view on why and how the political war was lost, despite the “armed struggle” battles having been won, explaining that it had always been a political rather than a military conflict, with the “armed struggle” having been just one part of the propaganda war, which latter the former South African government decisively lost due to poor strategic and policy choices.
NONGQAI magazine special series - the men speak: From Apartheid to Democracy - Personal insights and experiences recounted by Brig (Ret) Fanie Bouwer, who served in the uniformed component of the erstwhile South African Police during the turbulent years of internal political strife prior to the country's transition to a non-racial democracy. He particularly addresses te question of coercive versus innovative police action.
ntroducing the nature and goals of Nongqai magazine's new series: "the men speak". This will consist of eyewitness recollections and insights of those who served in the security and intelligence spheres during the last decades of white rule in South Africa, recounted to enhance understanding of the realities and motives that contributed to the transition from Apartheid to a non-racial democracy.
Nongqai serialisation of our e-Book "The danger of a single story" about the other side of the conflict between the ANC's MK and the S.A. Police SB during the armed struggle in South Africa - PART 1.
Memories of 14 year old boy visiting the border area in northern Namibia for the first time in 1988
