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...
by | Mar 19, 2024 | Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Rhodesian Conflict
Abstract : The FLECHAS were a Paramilitary unit under the auspices of PIDE/DGS, (PIDE was renamed DGS in 1969). It’s generally believed that the unit was started with eight Bushmen in 1967 by Oscar Cardoso when he was an inspector with PIDE/DGS, what is not well...
by | Jan 5, 2024 | Rhodesian Conflict, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte
ABSTRACT: The Rhodesian Security Force (RSF) was in its thirteenth year of a civil war and on the back foot with the real prospect that it may lose the war to the two guerrilla armies. The RSF had launched several devastating cross-border raids against ZIPRA camps...
