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Nongqai Archive Now Online and Fully Searchable

NONGQAI ARCHIVE NOW ONLINE AND FULLY SEARCHABLE

South Africa's Transition What Really Happened and Why

South Africa's Transition What Really Happened and Why

Season's Greetings from Nongqai

Season's greetings from Nongqai

Maj Ge Diedericks and the Sap Special Staff During Ww2

ABSTRACT: This article explores the formation, function, and legacy of the South African Police CID Special Staff, a covert political policing unit established in 1939 under the command of Major Gabriel Edward Diedericks, KPM, MVO, during t

How Pretoria and Moscow Secretly Cooperated to Build Mig-29 Engines Into Saaf Mirages

How Pretoria and Moscow secretly cooperated to build MIG-29 engines into SAAF Mirages, creating the “Super Mirage F-1”.

The Widely Praised Police Handling of the 1973 Durban Strikes

THE WIDELY PRAISED POLICE HANDLING OF THE 1973 DURBAN STRIKES

The Real History Behind Pw Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech

This article reveals the real history behind PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech. Because of the catastrophic consequences that flowed from it, it is important to understand the amount of dysfunction and discord in the South African government’s strategic decision-making at that time, as cause for the debacle.

NONGQAI Vol16 No7 July 2025 DOWNLOAD LINK

NONGQAI Vol16 No7 July 2025 DOWNLOAD LINK

Nongqai Vol 16 No 6 June 2025 Post Links

Nongqai Vol16 No6 June 2025 Post Links - the access links to all of our Blog Posts of June 2026 collated into one handy downloadable A4 pdf document for easy reference archive purposes - just click on a link to see the post pop up on your screen

NONGQAI Vol16 No5 AVAILABLE HERE FOR DOWNLOAD

Nongqai Vol16 No5 available here for download

Transkei Policing History

Om ons spesiale uitgawe oor die geskiedenis van polisiëring in Transkei (Vol 16 No 5A) af te laai, KLIEK HIER

Important Explainer for Nongqai Contributors

As an officially registered non-profit, public benefit organization which also is financially dependent on sponsorships and donations, the Nongqai Trust needs to be careful about what it publishes, in terms of civil legal liability (copyright infringements and libel / individual privacy), criminal law (crimen injuria, and not disclosing official secrets or covert operational methods, sources and technology) as well as public administrative law (not giving grounds for our non-profit PBO status to be revoked based on perceived party-political partisanship).

Land as National Security Issue in South Africa

NONGQAI SERIES THE MEN SPEAK Dr Willem Steenkamp

Community Policing in South Africa - Successes and Failures (de Witt Committee)

Abstract:  This article examines the origin, development, and ultimate failure of community policing in South Africa, with specific reference to the De Witt Commission of 1988–1989 and the subsequent establishment of the South African

New Book on South Africa's Bureau for State Security

Nongqai se redakteur vir intelligensie-wese, die bekende skrywer en historikus Henning van Aswegen, het pas die definitiewe geskiedenis van die Buro vir Staatsveiligheid bekend gestel. Die boek is 'n moet-hê versamelstuk.

April 2025 Editions Now Downloadable

Standaard maand-uitgawe April 2025 / Standard monthly edition April 2025

Intelligence Course with Bnd 1979

uring the Cold War, the Republic of South Africa had a cooperative relationship with Western countries in the spheres of security and intelligence. Information was exchanged, and cooperation included training exchanges. One such course took place in 1979 in Munich, Germany, presented to analysts of the S.A. intelligence service by the BND (the Bundesnachrichtendienst - the intelligence service of the West-Germany). This article recounts the memories of a South African participant.

Police Patrol Massacred in Cato Manor, 1960

A squad of policemen of the SAP were massacred in Cato Manor, Durban (South Africa) in 1960 whilst out on a patrol against illicit liquor brewing and selling.

Nongqai Special Edition Vol16 No 3b Now Available

Nongqai Vol16 No3B Special Edition consisting of a reprint of The Natal Bobby of December 1990

NANCY THE SPRINGBOK the SA Scottish mascot during WW1

The story of Nancy the Springbok the antelope from the OFS in South Africa that became a famous military mascot during WW1 with the men of the SA Scottish

The Bureau for State Security as South Africa's First Central Intelligence Organ

South Africa's Bureau for State Security BfSS, founded in 1969, was its first central intelligence agency and though it supposedly was closed down and replaced by the National Intelligence Service NIS under premier PW Botha, in essence the NIS was just a continuation of the BfSS under another name, building on the foundation laid under the aegis of the Bureau.

Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli

CHRISTEN, ANTI-KOMMUNIS, ANTI-GEWELD, BILLIK TEENOOR DIE POLISIE EN OP SY BEURT DEUR HULLE WAARDEER

Nongqai Vol 16 No 3 March 2025 Standard Edition

As voorsmakie, kan u die inhoudsopgaaf hieronder sien - as appetizer, you can see the Index below:

NONGQAI LADIES Vol 16 No 3 March 2025

MAART 2025 se NONGQAI VROUE-UITGAWE NOU BESKIKBAAR VIR AFLAAI AS .pdf; KLIEK OP SKAKEL HIERONDER ASSEBLIEF:

Nongqai Switched from Issuu to Own Blog

From March 2025 the NONGQAI e-magazine is no longer on the ISSUU platform, but is published on its own BLOG, at https://nongqai.org

Die Legendariese Ao Bokkie Breedt

ABSTRACT: Author’s recollections of the legendary SA Police College Sargeant-Major, Warrant Officer BOKKIE BREEDT

Die Lewe Se Teekamer-Praatjies: Verlede, Hede en Toekoms

Lewenswaarhede uit die pen van Brig Fanie Bouwer (afgetree)

Namibian President Sam Nujoma Obituary

By: Dr (Amb) Riaan Eksteen (South Africa’s first Ambassador to Namibia, 1990-1992): 

Understanding the New American Foreign Policy Towards South Africa and Ukraine

Understanding the new American foreign policy towards South Africa and Ukraine is hugely important to the relevant governments and affected citizens alike

Dr LD (NIëL) BARNARD - AN APPRECIATION

Appreciation of the contribution made by the late Dr Niël Barnard, former head of South Africa's then National Intelligence Service, to the peaceful transition to a negotiated non-racial new constitution.

Fourth Analysis of Security Concerns Round the 2024 South African Elections with Coalition Inevitable

ABSTRACT: NONGQAI’s Fourth Analysis of Security Concerns round the 2024 South African Elections with coalition inevitable, assesses  the implications of the inevitable need for coalition-building (as obliged by the actual election resu

Third Analysis of Security Concerns Round the 2024 South African Elections

ABSTRACT: NONGQAI’s Third Analysis of Security Concerns round the 2024 South African Elections is focused on understanding the tactics that underpin this election’s main news: the Zuma-aligned MK party versus the ANC Tripartite Alliance. We

Intel Analysis #2 Security Situation Round Sa Elections

ABSTRACT: Intel Analysis #2 security situation round SA Elections – our second intelligence analysis of the national security situation likely to pertain just prior to, and especially in the aftermath of the 2024 South African general elect

Nongqai Vol15 No4 April 2024 Now Available

Intel Analysis Security Situation Round Sa Elections

ABSTRACT: Intel Analysis security situation round SA Elections - An intelligence analysis of the national security situation likely to pertain just prior to, and especially in the aftermath of the 2024 South African general elections, shows

S a Police Security Branch Series Part 4

ABSTRACT: S A  Police Security Branch Series Part 4 - the fourth extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This chapter explores who and what the

Three New Nongqai Special Editions April 2024

ABSTRACT: Three new Nongqai Special Editions April 2024 now available  for download as pdf's. Vol15 No4A is about the German volunteers who fought in the Italian Army in Eritrea during WW2, and the other two are about railways: No4C ab

Nongqai Ladies Edition April 2024 Now Available

NONGQAI LADIES EDITION APRIL 2024 NOW AVAILABLE

Squad Cars Episode 11 the Safe Crackers

SQUAD CARS, the famous Springbok Radio series of yesteryear about the SA Police Flying Squad, is now back as a podcast on our NONGQAI YOUTUBE channel!

Squad Cars Episode 10 on Nongqai Youtube Channel

Wat was nou lekkerder as om naweke te kon inskakel op Springbok Radio se uitstekende radiodrama-reeks oor die SAP Blitspatrollie, "SQUAD CARS".

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

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

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

"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

Extra Cash Is Always Welcome - Meet John Morgan, Nongqai Advertiser and Collector of Memorabilia

Extra cash is always welcome Nongqai blog introduces John Morgan, military memorabilia collector, one of our top-flight advertisers

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

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.

Nongqai and Akademia Cooperate to Preserve Our Archive

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.

NONGQAI SERIES THE MEN SPEAK Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2

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

NONGQAI SERIES THE MEN SPEAK Dr Willem Steenkamp

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 Special series : The men speak : Brig Fanie Bouwer

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.

South Africa armed conflict : Nature and comparative scale

Nongqai magazine's series of extracts from eBook on the armed struggle between the South African Police Security Branch and the alliance between the SA Communist Party and the ANC / MK

SA Police in Rhodesian bush war : Gruesome discovery

During October 1974 a four-man South African Police patrol went missing along the Zambesi River, near Chirundu base. They were surprised in their sleeping bags, with two killed and two gravely injured.

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)

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.

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.

S.A. Police Security Branch and the Armed Struggle: Part 1

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.

Home for Your Intelligence Memorabilia

ABSTRACT: Nongqai’s valuable digital archive is being preserved for posterity, in partnership with a leading university’s library. Similarly, our team believes that the common dream among many intelligence veterans of having a properly managed permanent repository, at a suitably prestigious heritage venue, of MEMORABILIA associated with the history of Intelligence Services in South Africa, may soon be realised. However, in the negotiations to promote this, it is important for us to be able to submit an indication of the kind and likely volume of such material that intelligence veterans would consider donating. Therefore, please contact our intelligence sub-editor, Henning van Aswegen, at: subintel@nongqai.org for further information and/or to send us your informal “inventory” (with photos please) of memorabilia you may be willing to donate.

Bazley-Halte Moord : Sasp

BAZLEY RAILWAY HALT NEAR DURBAN ON THE SOATH COAST LINE, SOUTH AFRICA, WAS THE SCENE OF A DASTARDLY MUDER CAMOUFLAGED AS A RAIL ACCIDENT, WITH THE BODY OF THE VICTIM HAVING BEEN PLACED ON THE LINE, TO BE MUTILATED BY THE NEXT TRAIN. THIS DID NOT FOOL RAILWAYS POLICE DETECTIVE SERGEANT MARTINS BOTHA, THOUGH.