by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 7, 2025 | Uncategorized, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
The writer of this article is Dirk Kriel, a product of Goudveld High School in Welkom, a competitive rugby player and a former national serviceman at 6 SA Infantry in Grahamstown. Dirk spent the last five months of his military service on the Angolan border, just...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 4, 2025 | BfSS NIS, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis, Historical photos, Life Story, Local South African Police Forces, Police Psychology, Public Safety, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South African Intelligence History
Ontploffing op Johannesburg-stasie – 1964 In 1964 neem die ANC-SAKP se rewolusie geweldadige afmetings aan met ‘n gewetenlose aanval in Johannesburg op onskuldige lede van die algemene publiek. ’n Ondergrondse organisasie, bekend as die ARM, het intussen...
by WPS | Apr 11, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, BfSS NIS, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned; an analysis of how tiny the South African Police force in reality was by international standards, also given the vast territory they had to cover and their onerous new work-load regarding...
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 | 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...
