by WPS | Apr 5, 2024 | BfSS NIS, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: Revealing article by John Fullerton in NOW! magazine, October 1979, about the “quiet coup d’etat against PM John Vorster in 1978, which Fullerton attributes to a group of generals in the South African Defence Force, stemming from an inter-departmental power...
by | Mar 23, 2024 | SA Military History
Elands River Siege : 4–16 August 1900 ABSTRACT : The Boer investment in August 1900 of the British Elands River staging post halfway between Rustenburg and Zeerust in the Western Transvaal. The men of the Elands River garrison had had to endure almost two weeks of...
by WPS | Mar 21, 2024 | Uncategorized, Archives Posts, BfSS NIS, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, South African Intelligence History
DAGBOEK ASSEBLIEF! NONGQAI en AKADEMIA FUNKSIE 26 MAART 17h00 NONGQAI is trots om aan te kondig dat Akademia Universiteit ingewillig het om saam te werk in die langtermyn-bewaring en indeksering van ons argief. Die bekendstellingsfunksie vir hierdie vennootskap vind...
by David Blyth | Mar 4, 2024 | SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR GRAVES ACROSS THE WORLD Abstract: South Africans took part in almost every war theatre during the First and Second World Wars. Their graves are in those regions. A new memorial to commemorate these who are not currently commemorated is being...
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...