by WPS | Jan 18, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: Second extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This episode highlights the very limited scale of the conflict when compared to other such conflicts that raged in...
by WPS | Jan 16, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: In October 1974 a patrol of SA Policemen deployed along the Zambezi River went missing. Trackers were sent in and eventually found that the SAP contingent had bedded down around a small camp fire. They must have taken their clothes off, as naked,...
by WPS | Jan 7, 2024 | RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, Defence, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), South African Intelligence History, Staatsveiligheidsraad
ABSTRACT: Introducing Nongqai magazine’s new series of eyewitness recollections and insights titled: “The Men Speak” about the security and intelligence sphere during the last decades of white rule in South Africa. KEYWORDS: South Africa; Apartheid; national security;...
by WPS | Jan 7, 2024 | South African Police Brigade, SAP History / Geskiedenis
ABSTRACT: The history of the legendary former SA Police Holiday Resort at Port Edward on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast, surviving and thriving as the Port Edward Holiday Resort NPC (PEHR) still with its police connection and special rates. KEYWORDS: Assupol, Elderly...
by WPS | Dec 6, 2023 | Fire Brigade / Brandweer, Brokkies
ABSTRACT: 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....