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South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned
BfSS NIS

South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned

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

Photo Album Water Police Durban Harbour
SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie

Photo Album Water Police Durban Harbour

ABSTRACT: Photo Album Durban Harbour Water Police from yesteryear, spiced up with a self-depreciating story told by former Ntal AG, adv Cecil Rees.

Bring Skillie Home
Defence

Bring Skillie Home

MIA South African parabat Andries “Skillie” Human was last seen alive exiting the side-door of a Hercules aircraft at 500ft over the fortified military base Cassinga, 150kms across the border into Angola, on 4 May 1978.

"quiet Coup D'etat" Against Pm John Vorster
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"quiet Coup D'etat" Against Pm John Vorster

"QUIET COUP D'ETAT" AGAINST PM JOHN VORSTER - Nongqai BLOG Revealing article by John Fullerton in NOW! magazine, Oct 1979, on the "quiet coup d'etat" against PM John Vorster, which he attributes to generals of the SADF

Nongqai Entrusts Its Archive to Akademia
Military History

Nongqai Entrusts Its Archive to Akademia

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

Elands River Siege
SA Military History

Elands River Siege

By August 1900, ten months after the outbreak of hostilities between British forces and those of the Transvaal and Orange Free State Boer republics in South Africa, Her Majesty’s troops were starting to gain the ascendency across the subcon

S.a. Police Security Branch Series #3
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S.a. Police Security Branch Series #3

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.