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Intelligence and National Security Management System in South Africa

As part of a new series in Nongqai, the South African Forces History Magazine, entitled “The Men Speak”, its editor-in-chief, retired Police Brigadier Hennie Heymans, shares his personal insights into the period 1964 to 1993 within the South African Police Security Branch and the National Security Management System, where he served in positions that afforded him vantage points from where to live and observe key shaping events on South Africa’s evolution over the course of the Cold War, from the last racially-based colonial bastion to a non-racial democracy along free-market, Western liberal constitutional principles.

NONGQAI SERIES : The men speak : Brig Hennie Heymans

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.

Port Edward beach resort : Legend of survival

The history of the former SA Police Holiday Resort at Port Edward on the lower KwaZulu Natal South Coast, now known as Port Edward Holiday Resort NPC (PEHR)

Operation Vanity

ABSTRACT:   The Rhodesian Security Force (RSF) was in its thirteenth year of a civil war and on the back foot with the real prospect that it may lose the war to the two guerrilla armies. The RSF had launched several devastating cr

Feeding Crime

South Africa provides food parcels to those in need with social grants to alleviate hunger and poverty. However, the quality and quantity of the food provided to those in police custody is superior to those receiving social grants. The gove

SA Police Badge

Author: Lt Col LJ Haasbroekwww.servamus.co.zaemail: editor@servamus.co.za

Major General CP Pretorius

General George Fivaz

ABSTRACT:  General George Fivaz accomplished the transitioning of the apartheid-era South African Police force and those of the former Bantu homelands, amalgamating them into the new South African Police Service, when tasked by Preside

NIS 25 years 1994

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Volunteer Fire Brigade in Sinoville

The community of Sinoville, a neighbourhood to the East of Pretoria, established their own volunteer fire brigade. This blog post explains what they have done, with links to their website and a video, so that other communities may consider following suit.

Capital punishment

Wanneer die doodsvonnis verwag is, het die griffier die balju ontbied wat die veroordeelde na die dodesel in Pretoria vergesel het.

LT GEN FRIKKIE ENGELS : Nongqai Special Edition

Nongqai magazine Special Edition dedicated to the life and career of the late South African Police Lieutenant-General FLC (Frikkie) Engels, former inspector-general of the Force.