by Hennie Heymans | May 8, 2025 | Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Life Story, Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force
HOW A PRETORIA GIRL BECAME A PILOT IN WORLD WAR II Abstract Dolores Teresa “Jackie” Sorour a young lady from Pretoria was determined to become a pilot and the first lady to use a parachute. She succeeded and became a pilot and later a pilot in the WAAF – she was a...
by Hennie Heymans | Apr 23, 2025 | Defence, Military History, Royal Air Force, SA Military History, South Africans in RAF, Women's Auxiliary Air Force
HOW A PRETORIA GIRL BECAME A PILOT IN WORLD WAR II Abstract Dolores Teresa “Jackie” Sorour a young lady from Pretoria was determined to become a pilot and the first lady to use a parachute. She succeeded and became a pilot and later a pilot in the WAAF – she was a...
by Hennie Heymans | Apr 23, 2025 | Defence, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Koevoet, Military History, Operation "K", POW's / Krygsgevangenes, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, South African Air Force, South African Air Force in Korea
SAAF HELICOPTERS AS FORCE MULTIPLIERS: LT GEN DENIS JOHN EARP, SSA, SD, SOE, SAAF (RETIRED) Abstract On 26 April 2011 Brig Hennie Heymans interviewed Lt-Gen DJ Earp on the use of SAAF-helicopters as a force multiplier in counterinsurgency operations and their use by...
by WPS | Mar 13, 2025 | Uncategorized, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte
Namibian President Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna (Sam) Nujoma (12 May 1929 – 8 February 2025) By: Dr (Amb) Riaan Eksteen (South Africa’s first Ambassador to Namibia, 1990-1992): President Sam Nujoma was a part of my Namibian frame of reference for forty-four years. I...
by WPS | Feb 25, 2025 | Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte
UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA AND UKRAINE by Dr Willem Steenkamp (NONGQAI co-editor, former ambassador and intelligence analyst) ABSTRACT: American President Donald Trump is implementing a new foreign policy towards South Africa....
by WPS | Apr 21, 2024 | Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Historical photos, Military History, Rhodesian Conflict, Uloliwe
ABSTRACT: Three new Nongqai Special Editions April 2024 now available for download as pdf’s. Vol15 No4A is about the German volunteers who fought in the Italian Army in Eritrea during WW2, and the other two are about railways: No4C about the Rhodesian armoured...
