by Sarie van Niekerk | Aug 8, 2025 | NONGQAI Publications, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
VROUEMAAND 9 AUGUSTUS 2025 Via Sarie van Niekerk. Ons dra hierdie Vroue uitgawe op aan alle en veral aan aal ma’s. WOMEN’S DAY, WOMEN’S RIGHTS Wilhelm van Deventer On August 9, we will yet again honour our women. It’s a good time to think about how women’s...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 7, 2025 | History of the Natal (Mounted) Police, Local South African Police Forces, Natal Mounted Police, Natal Police (Colony), SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
1874 – 1894: NATAL MOUNTED POLICE: MEMORIALS Deon van Niekerk I was asked to look for a plaque for the Natal Mounted Police that seemed to have gotten lost. I also volunteer to photograph graves for the EGGSA, Genealogical Society of SA, and know there are graves of...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
2022: SAP/SAPS DOG UNIT: NEW WALL OF REMEMBERANCE: KLOOF: KZN Adrian Ash & Deon van Niekerk On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Durban Dog Unit, a Wall of Remembrance was unveiled in Kloof, just outside Durban, to honour the police dogs who died in the...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | German Army, Rhodesian Army, SA Air Force, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
CAPTAIN KEITH COSTER, SAAF: PRISONER OF WAR: PART I Gerry van Tond (© text) Lieutenant-General Keith Coster ICD, OBE, SSAS, was a South African Air Force and army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972. In May 1937, Coster enlisted in the...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, German Army, Military writers & authors, Rhodesian Conflict, SA Air Force, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Union Defence Force
CAPTAIN KEITH COSTER, SAAF: PRISONER OF WAR: PART II (FINAL) Gerry van Tonder (© text) Continued from Part I, in which Lieutenant General Keith Coster, Commander of the Rhodesian Army, 1968–72, relates his experiences as a World War Two prisoner of war. Serving at the...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | Functions of the SA Police, Republican Intelligence (RI), SAP - CID, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SAP South West Africa Division, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
MY FATHER THE SPY: AGENT OF THE REPUBLICAN INTELLIGENCE (RI) AND THE BUREAU FOR STATE SECURITY (BFSS): 1964 TO 1978 Wolfgang Witschas Abstract: My father, Herbert Ernst Witschas, worked as an agent for the Republican Intelligence (RI) and the Bureau of State Security...
