Category: Defence
WAR STORIES AND YARNS
Abstract
A look at some history gathered by Hennie Heymans over the years.
History is sometimes great fun or a great adventure!
MEMORIAL WALL FOR FOUR-LEGGED SOLDIERS UNVEILED AT MONUMENT
Animal heroes are honoured at the Animals in War Memorial Wall (Diere in Oorlog-gedenkmuur) the first of its kind in South Africa, which was unveiled at the Voortrekker Monument on 30 March 2025.
Read MoreHOW A PRETORIA GIRL BECAME A PILOT IN WORLD WAR II
Dolores Teresa “Jackie” Sorour a young lady from Pretoria was determined to become a pilot and the first lady to use a parachute. She succeeded and became a pilot and later a pilot in the WAAF – she was a lifelong pilot.
Read MoreSAAF HELICOPTERS AS FORCE MULTIPLIERS LT GEN DJ EARP
SAAF HELICOPTERS AS FORCE MULTIPLIERS: LT GEN DENIS JOHN EARP, SSA, SD, SOE, SAAF (RETIRED) Abstract On 26 April 2011 Brig Hennie Heymans interviewed Lt-Gen DJ Earp on the use of SAAF-helicopters as a force multiplier in...
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SA se (eens magtige) lugmag vier 105 jaar
Die SA Lugmag is 105 jaar oud. Petronel Fourie gee ‘n terugblik na die SA Lugmag se geskiedenis.
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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.
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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.
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Mighty Shackleton meets the Playful Pussy Cat
Nongqai magazine article about SAAF Shackleton aircraft of the 50s encountering the F-14 Tomcat of the 70s on three patrols
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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.
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