by WPS | Apr 10, 2024 | SA Military History, Defence, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
ABSTRACT: Bring Skillie Home – South African para 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. It was later...
by WPS | Feb 25, 2024 | Defence, BfSS NIS, Life Story, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak
ABSTRACT: 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...
by David Blyth | Jan 18, 2024 | Defence, Military History, SA Military History
ABSTRACT: Friendly encounters between SA Air Force Shackleton marine patrol aircraft from 35 Squadron with F-14 Tomcats from carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower KEYWORDS: SAAF, 35 Squadron, Shackleton, F-14 Tomcat, USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier, Iran hostage...
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;...
