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FOLLOW LIVE ONLINE! On 26 March 2024, a function will be held to celebrate the cooperation between Nongqai, the SA Forces History Magazine, and the Library of Akademia University aimed at preserving Nongqai's valuable archive for future generations.
Gedurende 1988 het die gedagte ontstaan om voormalige MK- en Apla-lede wat aan Vlakplaas verbonde was, op te lei in valskermspring. Hierdie gedagte is vooraf gegaan deur drie weke se intensiewe opleiding te Penge-myn naby Burgersfort. Die o
South Africans took part in almost every war theatre during the First and Second World Wars. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Data Base 7 290 (includes 607 unknown) First World War casualties and 9 986 (inc
ABSTRACT: Nongqai series The Men Speak Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2 – my years in Intelligence. Willem is the son of former SAP-SB CO Maj-Gen Frans Steenkamp. He is himself a former NIS officer who did his doctoral thesis on the intelligence
Kort nadat ek as Distrikskommandant in Namakwaland (Springbok) aangeland het, vertel die Distrikspeuroffisier, Kleintjie Höll (toevallig my bloedneef - ons moeders was susters), vir my van die Richtersveld.
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.
