by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 18, 2025 | South African Intelligence History, BfSS NIS, Historical photos, Life Story, Public Safety, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad
Johan Mostert & Jan-Jan Joubert Een van die grondleggers van die Suid-Afrikaanse demokrasie en moderne intelligensiedienste, Niël Barnard, is Maandagoggend in die ouderdom van 75 jaar oorlede. Jan-Jan Joubert en Johan Mostert neem bestek op van sy bydrae tot...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 16, 2025 | SAP Commissioners, Life Story, Local South African Police Forces, Public Safety
Genl. Johan van der Merwe Ek het op 17 Maart 1994 die volgende brief aan regter Goldstone geskryf: Geagte regter Goldstone INSAKE U ONDERSOEK NA DIE BEWEERDE BETROKKENHEID VAN SEKERE GENERAALS BY OPENBARE GEWELD EN INTIMIDASIE 1. Na aanleiding van die gesprek wat ek...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 13, 2025 | BfSS NIS, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, South African Intelligence History
Dr. Niël Barnard, eerste onderhandelaar van regeringskant vir ‘n demokratiese Suid-Afrika, voormalige spioenbaas en eerste Direkteur-Generaal van Wes-Kaapland, is vanoggend (13.01.2025( sonder pyn in Gansbaai oorlede na ‘n lang stryd teen kanker. Hy was 75...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 7, 2025 | Uncategorized, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
The writer of this article is Dirk Kriel, a product of Goudveld High School in Welkom, a competitive rugby player and a former national serviceman at 6 SA Infantry in Grahamstown. Dirk spent the last five months of his military service on the Angolan border, just...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 7, 2025 | Archives Posts, Brokkies, Public Safety, SA Military History
Henning van Aswegen Abstrak: Geheime Organisasies, Verwoerd-regering, Afrikaner Broederbond (AB), Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis, geskiedskrywing, nasionale veiligheid, staatsveiligheid, Henning van Aswegen, Nongqai diepte-artikelreekse, Bothakommissie van Ondersoek,...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 5, 2025 | BfSS NIS, Historical photos, Life Story, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, South African Intelligence History
Spioene is verkleurmannetjies, wat hul karakter en persoonlikheid na willekeur kan verander om vyandelike intelligensiedienste en spioenasieteikens binne te dring. Sylvia Raphael, ‘n Afrikaanssprekende jong meisie wat in Graaff Reinet in die Ooskaap gebore is en...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 5, 2025 | BfSS NIS, Archives Posts, Historical photos, Life Story, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, South African Intelligence History
Henning van Aswegen Allure of the Cuban Revolution While the Russian KGB has never been regarded as romantic or heroic by anyone, Cubans and their La Luta Continua revolution are heroes to numerous aeolistic idealists around the world. Demonstrators in democratic...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 4, 2025 | BfSS NIS, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis, Historical photos, Life Story, Local South African Police Forces, Police Psychology, Public Safety, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South African Intelligence History
Ontploffing op Johannesburg-stasie – 1964 In 1964 neem die ANC-SAKP se rewolusie geweldadige afmetings aan met ‘n gewetenlose aanval in Johannesburg op onskuldige lede van die algemene publiek. ’n Ondergrondse organisasie, bekend as die ARM, het intussen...
by Henning van Aswegen | Jan 4, 2025 | BfSS NIS, Archives Posts, Life Story, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, South African Intelligence History
Min spioene kan daarmee spog dat hulle die verloop van ʼn oorlog verander het, maar die Russiese spioen Richard Sorge kan. Sorge(uitgespreek Sor’j),was ʼn meesterspioen, waarskynlik die beste spioen van alle tye omdat sy spioenasiebedrywighede ʼn beduidende impak op...
by WPS | May 30, 2024 | Public Safety
ABSTRACT: NONGQAI’s Fourth Analysis of Security Concerns round the 2024 South African Elections with coalition inevitable, assesses the implications of the inevitable need for coalition-building (as obliged by the actual election results, with the ANC far from a...
by WPS | May 28, 2024 | Public Safety
ABSTRACT: NONGQAI’s Third Analysis of Security Concerns round the 2024 South African Elections is focused on understanding the tactics that underpin this election’s main news: the Zuma-aligned MK party versus the ANC Tripartite Alliance. We assess the security...
by WPS | May 13, 2024 | Public Safety, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis
ABSTRACT: Intel Analysis #2 security situation round SA Elections – our second intelligence analysis of the national security situation likely to pertain just prior to, and especially in the aftermath of the 2024 South African general elections; it shows that there is...
by WPS | Apr 27, 2024 | SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
NONGQAI VOL15 NO4 APRIL 2024 NOU BESKIKBAAR NONGQAI VOL14 NO5 APRIL 2024 NOW AVAILABLE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD / KLIEK HIER OM AF TE LAAI GET NOTIFIED OF NEW BLOG POSTS VIA WHATSAPP Name Your WhatsApp number + dial code 14 + 13 =...
by WPS | Apr 27, 2024 | Public Safety
ABSTRACT: Intel Analysis security situation round SA Elections – An intelligence analysis of the national security situation likely to pertain just prior to, and especially in the aftermath of the 2024 South African general elections, shows a high probability...
by WPS | Apr 22, 2024 | SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
ABSTRACT: S A Police Security Branch Series Part 4 – the fourth extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This chapter explores who and what the typical Security Branch...
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 WPS | Apr 20, 2024 | SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis, Police Psychology, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis
APRIL 2024 DAMES UITGAWE NOU BESKIKBAAR VIR AFLAAI KLIEK HIER / CLICK HERE GET NOTIFIED OF NEW BLOG POSTS VIA WHATSAPP Name Your WhatsApp number + dial code 9 + 2 =...
by WPS | Apr 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
CLICK HERE for SQUAD CARS #11: "THE SAFE CRACKERS" SQUAD CARS, the famous Springbok Radio series of yesteryear about the SA Police Flying Squad, is now back as a podcast on our NONGQAI YOUTUBE channel! This is episode #11: “THE SAFE CRACKERS”....
by Henning van Aswegen | Apr 14, 2024 | SA Defence Force / Weermag, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South African Intelligence History
by WPS | Apr 12, 2024 | Historical photos, SAP History / Geskiedenis, Squad Cars
"SQUAD CARS" OP ONS NONGQAI YOUTUBE KANAAL EPISODE #10 VAN SPRINGBOK RADIO-REEKS PAS GELAAI Wat was nou lekkerder as om naweke te kon inskakel op Springbok Radio se uitstekende radiodrama-reeks oor die SAP Blitspatrollie, “SQUAD CARS”. NONGQAI se eie...
by WPS | Apr 11, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, BfSS NIS, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned; an analysis of how tiny the South African Police force in reality was by international standards, also given the vast territory they had to cover and their onerous new work-load regarding...
by WPS | Apr 10, 2024 | SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
ABSTRACT: Photo Album Durban Harbour Water Police from yesteryear, spiced up with a self-depreciating story told by former Ntal AG, adv Cecil Rees. FOCUS KEYWORD: Photo album Durban Harbour Water Police KEYWORDS: Durban Harbour Water Police; South African Railways...
by WPS | Apr 10, 2024 | SA Military History, Defence, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
ABSTRACT: Bring Skillie Home – South African para Andries “Skillie” Human was last seen alive exiting the side-door of a Hercules aircraft at 500ft over the fortified military base Cassinga, 150kms across the border into Angola, on 4 May 1978. It was later...
by WPS | Apr 7, 2024 | SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
(AFRIKAANS VOLG OP ENGELSE TEKS) PLEASE DONATE TO NONGQAI here we explain why, what for, and how We all know (only too well!) that nowadays, practically nothing is free. Except for your NONGQAI. That is how we would like to keep it. But, of course, there are operating...
by WPS | Apr 5, 2024 | BfSS NIS, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: Revealing article by John Fullerton in NOW! magazine, October 1979, about the “quiet coup d’etat against PM John Vorster in 1978, which Fullerton attributes to a group of generals in the South African Defence Force, stemming from an inter-departmental power...
by WPS | Apr 3, 2024 | Life Story, Military History
ABSTRACT: Extra cash is always welcome! Many of us have memorabilia from our time in the Forces stashed away at home. Uniforms, other kit, perhaps even medals and awards. Stuff that the kids may not be interested in, or simply not have space for, or perhaps they live...
by WPS | Apr 3, 2024 | SA Defence Force / Weermag, Detective Mysteries, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Military History, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, South African Intelligence History
by Henning van Aswegen | Apr 3, 2024 | BfSS NIS, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: Nongqai Series the development of Intelligence Science in South Africa No 7 forms part of a review of the founding and development of professional intelligence entities in South Africa’s national security history. It is written by Henning van Aswegen,...
by WPS | Mar 31, 2024 | Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: Nongqai eMagazine and Akademia are cooperating in the preservation and indexing of Nongqai’s archive of back issues dating from 2010. At a function on the Akademia campus on 26 March 2024, entrusting the Nongqai collection to Akademia was celebrated. This...
by | Mar 25, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Abstract : The Generals’ Club of the South African Police celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on 22 August 20121. Initially, the Generals Club consisted of the serving and retired generals who used to serve in the South African Police. All serving and...
by | Mar 24, 2024 | Life Story, Historical photos
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by | Mar 23, 2024 | SA Military History
Elands River Siege : 4–16 August 1900 ABSTRACT : The Boer investment in August 1900 of the British Elands River staging post halfway between Rustenburg and Zeerust in the Western Transvaal. The men of the Elands River garrison had had to endure almost two weeks of...
by WPS | Mar 22, 2024 | South African Intelligence History, BfSS NIS, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad
ABSTRACT: Third extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This episode explains the complex history of South Africa’s internal conflict. Was “Apartheid” South Africa uniquely...
by WPS | Mar 21, 2024 | Uncategorized, Archives Posts, BfSS NIS, Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, South African Intelligence History
DAGBOEK ASSEBLIEF! NONGQAI en AKADEMIA FUNKSIE 26 MAART 17h00 NONGQAI is trots om aan te kondig dat Akademia Universiteit ingewillig het om saam te werk in die langtermyn-bewaring en indeksering van ons argief. Die bekendstellingsfunksie vir hierdie vennootskap vind...
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 | Mar 10, 2024 | SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak
VALSKERMEENHEID: SEKSIE CI (VLAKPLAAS) : VOORMALIGE MK, APLA EN SAP-LEDE ABSTRACT : During 1988, the idea arose to train former MK and Apla members who were connected to Vlakplaas in parachuting. This thought was preceded by three weeks of intensive training at Penge...
by | Mar 5, 2024 | Brokkies
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by David Blyth | Mar 4, 2024 | SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR GRAVES ACROSS THE WORLD Abstract: South Africans took part in almost every war theatre during the First and Second World Wars. Their graves are in those regions. A new memorial to commemorate these who are not currently commemorated is being...
by | Mar 3, 2024 | Historical photos
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by WPS | Mar 2, 2024 | South African Intelligence History, BfSS NIS, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak
ABSTRACT: Nongqai series The Men Speak Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2 – my years in Intelligence. Willem is the son of former SAP-SB CO Maj-Gen Frans Steenkamp. He is himself a former NIS officer who did his doctoral thesis on the intelligence function. He is also a...
by | Feb 26, 2024 | Archives Posts
Colonel Soobramoney Govender was born on 04 June 1935 in the South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal. He served in the SA Police from 03 March 1958 until his exit on early retirement on 30 September 1989, at SAPS Phoenix, Kwa Zulu Natal. After attestation in 1958, he was posted...
by | Feb 26, 2024 | Brokkies
1991: GRENSPATROLLIE - ORANJERIVIER (RICHTERSVELD) ABSTRACT : A 3-day South African Police border patrol from south the Orange River from Alexander Bay, through the Richtersveld to Vioolsdrif in the east. KEYWORDS : Alexander Bay, Fanie Bouwer, Flet-Gert Booysen,...
by WPS | Feb 25, 2024 | Defence, BfSS NIS, Life Story, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak
ABSTRACT: Dr Willem Steenkamp, son of former SAP-SB CO Maj-Gen Frans Steenkamp, and himself a former NIS officer who did his doctoral thesis on the intelligence function, as well as being a novelist, ambassador, attorney, entrepreneur and polyglot with wide...
by | Feb 24, 2024 | Archives Posts, Brokkies
ABSTRACT : The police- and detective career of Lieutenant Kathavarayen Rajgopaul the first commissioned officer (Lieutenant) of Indian descent to be appointed at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the South African Police on 1st April 1971. KEYWORDS :...
by | Feb 23, 2024 | Archives Posts, Brokkies
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by | Feb 22, 2024 | Detective Mysteries, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV
CL Chandler : A MI 6 Spy? ABSTRACT : The strange and exciting life of Mr CL Chandler, a possible secret agent of the British Government, in Russia especially during World War One. His activities after the war have aroused the suspicions of his family. It is very...
by | Feb 20, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
1959 : DURBAN ONLUSTE: POLISIE GELOOF : HOOFMAN ALBERT LUTHULI ABSTRACT: The role of the SA Police during the 1959 riots is lauded by Chief Albert Luthuli and it is interesting to note that some criticism has been expressed at the methods of reporting of the Durban...
by | Feb 19, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
SAP King's Rest ABSTRACT: Brigadier Hennie Heymans recalls the time that he was stationed at King’s Rest and shares anecdotes of that time. KEYWORDS: SAP King’s Rest, Durban, Soldiers Way, Bunny chow, Perks pies, Wentworth, Durban Borough Police, Natal...
by | Feb 17, 2024 | Life Story
Brigadier Gert Booysen ABSTRACT: The life of Brig Gert Booysen (96) – called “Flet-Gert” – he always went ‘flat out’ in an investigation. He was an imposing character. Judged by his friends they feel he would have made an excellent major general. He is the author of...
by | Feb 14, 2024 | SAP Dog Unit, Life Story
ABSTRACT : D/W/O van der Westhuizen was commonly known to others as Warrant Officer Wessie. He joined the South African Police on 1955-12-22 at the age of 18 years and completed his basic training at the “Depot”. His force number was 32463-9.On 15 January 1962 he...
