by Hennie Heymans | Sep 7, 2026 | HUMOUR IN UNIFORM, Police Humour, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Nongqai Vol 17 No 9 – (18) Humour in Uniform: The Barbershop MY MONTHLY HAPPY MOMENT Life is a song. Personally, I don’t know the words, the tune, or the artist, but I keep humming along anyway. Now and then, though, you hit a truly lekker moment. At my age, sitting...
by Hennie Heymans | Sep 3, 2026 | Diamant- en Goudtak, Diamond & Gold Branch (CID), HUMOUR IN UNIFORM, Police Humour, SAP Alexanderbaai (Diamantveld), SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Northern Cape Division (Kimberley), SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Sub-culture / sub-kultuur, Tribute to SAP Members
Nongqai vol 17 No 9 – (11) Diamantstories: SA Polisie SAP: DIAMANTSTORIES Luitenant‑Kolonel Vel Kruger Excerpt Lieutenant Colonel Vel Kruger recounts two ingenious diamond-smuggling cases from the Alexander Bay Sperrgebiet — one involving a homing pigeon harness and...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 15, 2026 | Court Humor, JUSTICE, Local South African Police Forces, OVSRDM, Police Humour, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Winburg - Landdros
Nongqai Vol 17 No 8 – Duel: Magistrate Winburg: OFS Republic Abstract A humorous account of a nineteenth‑century Winburg magistrate and his clerk whose duel was abruptly ended by a mysterious shot. Excerpt In Winburg’s tense moment of absurdity, the magistrate and his...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 13, 2026 | Afrikaans, CULTURE - PRESERVING, Police Humour, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Nongqai Vol 17 No 8 – Voertsek! VOERTSEK Sophia Kapp Met toestemming van Sophia Kapp haal ek haar soos volg aan: Ek deel daagliks iets wat ek oor die jare (meestal deur skade en/of skande) oor teksredaksie/vertaling/Afrikaans/Engels geleer het. Volg my blad as dit vir...
by Hennie Heymans | Dec 24, 2025 | Humour in the SAP, HUMOUR IN UNIFORM, Memory, Police Humour, SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie, SAP Personalities, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Twee interessante ministers ‘n Humoristiese vertelling deur Chris Botha TWEE INTERESSANTE MINISTERS Chris Botha Genl-maj Chris Botha En daar bars minister Louis le Grange uit van die lag. Ek het hom nog net een keer sò sien lag. Dit was toe hy vertel het hoe hy vir...
by Henning van Aswegen | Dec 10, 2025 | British Army in Colonial South Africa, Cold War, CULTURE - PRESERVING, Defence, ESPIONAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Foreign intelligence services, Foreign Police Forces, Historical photos, History, HUMOUR IN UNIFORM, INTERNATIONAL TERROR, IRREGULAR FORCES IN AFRICA, Local South African Police Forces, Memory, Military History, Military writers & authors, New Weapons of War, Nongqai Afrikaanse Woordeboek Veiligheidstudies, NONGQAI BOEKE, Nongqai Books, Nongqai Books & Writers, Nongqai Columns, Police Humour, Revolutionary Warfare, SA Military History, South African Constabulary, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Terrorism in Africa
Table of Contents/Inhoudsopgawe HOOFARTIKEL: Redaksie Nongqai Matjiesfontein en Genl. Andrew Wauchope Irregular Forces: Informal, Commercial and Criminal (3) Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): Von Steinaecker’s Horse Lashkar-e-Taliba [LeT]: The Islamist Jihadist...