by | Jan 17, 2024 | TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN, Archives Posts
ABSTRACT: Jim Hooper was an American war journalist who put the legendary unit on the map with his book “Koevoet”. He had two deployments, twice wounded and casevacated, and was awarded a border service medal by the Commissioner of the SA Police. He was an...
by WPS | Jan 16, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: In October 1974 a patrol of SA Policemen deployed along the Zambezi River went missing. Trackers were sent in and eventually found that the SAP contingent had bedded down around a small camp fire. They must have taken their clothes off, as naked,...
by | Jan 12, 2024 | TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: Fanie Avenant questions the design of the SAP Medal for Combating Terrorism. The medal appears to be smaller than any other police medals. Mr Avenant was awarded the medal and wondered why it was so small. With careful measurement we determined that the...
by WPS | Nov 19, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad, Tak Nasionale Vertolking (TNV), TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: A “single story” has established itself in public discourse, around the topic of South Africa’s “armed struggle”. But does it represent the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, about the role of the S.A. Police...
by | Nov 6, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: During March 1974 Sergeant Johan Khun was in charge of a 5-man Police patrol near Kandahar fishing camp along the Zambezi River. They disappeared. The SA Police later found the bodies of four murdered Police members. Sgt Khun appears to have been abducted by...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
Louis Lubbe ’N KORT GESKIEDENIS VAN SUIDWES-AFRIKA “Oorlog is nooit ’n eensydige saak nie.” – Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) Tussen die Oranjerivier in die suide en die Kunenerivier in die noorde lê daar ’n stuk wêreld, so buitengewoon en so anders, dat min...
