by Hennie Heymans | Jul 17, 2025 | Natal Police (Colony), Natal Mounted Police, Natal Mounted Police 1874, POLICE MEMORIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA
NATAL MOUNTED POLICE: GREYTOWN: THEY DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY, FAR AWAY FROM HOME Deon van Niekerk Deon writes: Here are some of the very old graves I photographed last year June 2025 in Greytown cemetery: John Adams John Buckley Baily Unfortunately, as you can see,...
by Hennie Heymans | Jul 14, 2025 | Historical photos, 1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War, Foreign Volunteers, Military History, Military Personalities, OVSRDM, SA Military History
ANGLO BOER WAR: FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS. ANGLO BOER WAR: REMEMBERING THE FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS. Jennifer Bosch The old Parsonage Museum in Utrecht, KZN Tucked behind the old Parsonage Museum in Utrecht, KZN, is the Wall of Remembrance to the Foreign Volunteers who stood...
by Hennie Heymans | Jul 13, 2025 | Durban Borough Police * Durban Gemeentelike Politie, Durban City Police, SOUTH AFRICAN TRAFFIC DEPARTMENTS
TRAFFIC LIGHTS First Traffic Lights in Durban and Cape Town Jennifer Bosch Jennifer Bosch Durban City Police 1930: Durban City Police: First Traffic Light Durban City of Cape Town 1932 Traffic Lights Cape Town Cape Town’s first traffic light. The city’s first three...
by Hennie Heymans | Jul 12, 2025 | Historical photos, 1960 Cato Manor - Murder of 9 SAP-members, 1966 Bush War / Coin, 1966 Ongulambashe, BOOKS / BOEKE, Cape Mounted Police, Life Story, Military History, Ministers of Justice / Police / Law & Order, Natal Police (Colony), OVSRDM, Paul Els (military author), Republican Intelligence (RI), SA Army, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP Brigade, SAP Colours - Vaandel, SAP Commissioners, SAP Durban, SAP Helicopters, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Mobile Unit - Port Natal, SAP Personalities, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SAP Transkei Division (Pre-Independence from the RSA), Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), South African Air Force, South African Constabulary, South African Medals, Staatsveiligheidsraad, Tribute to SAP Members
ONGULAMBASHE DIE SLAG VAN ONGULAMBASHE: 26 AUGUSTUS 1966 Paul Els & Hennie Heymans Inleiding: Die Slag Van Ongulambashe: 26 Augustus 1966 Hennie Heymans Die “Slag van Ongulambashe” het nie sommer uit die bloute ontstaan, asof ’n towerfeetjie haar towerstaffie...
by Hennie Heymans | Jul 9, 2025 | Police Humour, Col JG Dartnell, History of the Natal (Mounted) Police, Local South African Police Forces, Natal Mounted Police, Natal Mounted Police 1874, Natal Police (Colony), SAP History / Geskiedenis
NATAL MOUNTED POLICE BASIC TRAINING: MOUNTED DRIL: NATAL MOUNTED POLICE Dr Henry Abbott Hallo Hennie, Wie van ons dink nie partykeer terug na die manewales van ‘n kaartmannetjie-korporaal, -drilsersant, -adjudant of -samajoor nie? Party van die manne het uittrap tot...
by Hennie Heymans | Jul 5, 2025 | Local South African Police Forces, Burger Wacht (1652 onwards), Pretoria Central (Up to 1972), SAP Pretoria Central & Barracks, Wachthuis, Wachthuis - Cape Town
THE FIRST WACHTHUIS & OLD PRETORIA CENTRAL The original Wachthuis in Cape Town and the original Pretoria Central Police Station c1910 Wachthuis (on the left) in the days of horse-carts & wagons in Cape Town. The was the first police building in South Africa in...
