by Hennie Heymans | Apr 12, 2026 | 1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War, British Army in Colonial South Africa, Deelfontein, Military History, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Anglo Boer War: Deelfontein DE AAR AND DEELFONTEIN IN THE NORTHERN CAPE. Jennifer Bosch De Aar was important as it sat on the junction of the railway lines from Cape Town and Port Elizabeth as they joined to form the line to Kimberley and Mafeking. It was one of three...
by Henning van Aswegen | Feb 14, 2026 | Archives Posts, Rhodesian Army, SAL/SAA Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
The Unknown Monument: The Rhodesian Viscount Memorial: Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria Wolfgang Witschas Abstract The Rhodesian Viscount Memorial, located at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa, honours the victims of the 1978 and 1979 Air Rhodesia...
by Hennie Heymans | Jan 22, 2026 | Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Italian POW's - Zonderwater, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Krygsgevangenes lê nou naamloos in hulle grafte Abstract The Zonderwater Italian Military Cemetery, once a well‑maintained memorial site for 277 Italian prisoners of war who died in South Africa between 1941 and 1947, has fallen into serious neglect. Repeated...
by Henning van Aswegen | Dec 10, 2025 | British Army in Colonial South Africa, Cold War, CULTURE - PRESERVING, Defence, ESPIONAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Foreign intelligence services, Foreign Police Forces, Historical photos, History, HUMOUR IN UNIFORM, INTERNATIONAL TERROR, IRREGULAR FORCES IN AFRICA, Local South African Police Forces, Memory, Military History, Military writers & authors, New Weapons of War, Nongqai Afrikaanse Woordeboek Veiligheidstudies, NONGQAI BOEKE, Nongqai Books, Nongqai Books & Writers, Nongqai Columns, Police Humour, Revolutionary Warfare, SA Military History, South African Constabulary, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Terrorism in Africa
Table of Contents/Inhoudsopgawe HOOFARTIKEL: Redaksie Nongqai Matjiesfontein en Genl. Andrew Wauchope Irregular Forces: Informal, Commercial and Criminal (3) Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): Von Steinaecker’s Horse Lashkar-e-Taliba [LeT]: The Islamist Jihadist...
by Wolfgang Witschas | Nov 27, 2025 | SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902), British Army in Colonial South Africa, British Concentration Camps
Second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902): Von Steinaecker’s Horse (SH) Unit Wolfgang Witschas Abstract “Steinaecker’s Horse unit” (SH) was a volunteer British military unit created by the British Military Intelligence, that fought for the British...
by Hennie Heymans | Nov 24, 2025 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, Military Personalities, Remembrance day, SA Air Force, SA Military History, South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World –, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South Africans in RAF
The story of Captain Kinnery, S.A.A.F. Abstract Captain John Frederick “Jack” Kinnery (1918–1944), born in London and raised in Johannesburg, trained as a surveyor before enlisting in the South African Air Force in 1940. Rising through the ranks from air gunner to...
