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...
by | Feb 11, 2024 | Life Story
ABSTRACT : Brig Marius de Witt Dippenaar is the Author of the The SA Police Commemorative Album – a monumental work – published during the 75th Anniversary of the South African Police during 1988. Nongqai Lady’s Editor, Sarie van Niekerk investigated the life and...
by | Feb 10, 2024 | Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis
FIREARMS MISSING? Abstract The loss of firearms in the SAPS is endemic. The problem that started decades ago persists despite a vast number of policies, control measures and threats of severe punishment that face the culprits. This abstract argues that the problem is...
by David Blyth | Feb 9, 2024 | SA Military History
ROMMEL'S DRIVER Abstract: Lt. Hellmut von Liepzig, born in Keetmanshoop, South West Africa (now Namibia) to German parents, joined the DAK (German Africa Corps) in 1941. He was Field Marshal’s Erwin Rommel’s driver and part of his staff during the DAK’s North...
by | Feb 9, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak
Sedert sy totstandkoming het die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie, wat onlosmaaklik deel van die gemeenskap is, dikwels vasgevang geraak in politieke tweespalt. Deur die geskiedenis heen het die Polisie egter nog altyd wet en orde gehandhaaf, al het elke lid sy eie politieke...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Police Psychology
ABSTRACT: The article deals with the concept of profiling, a personal view of the concept and a proposal for an Afrikaans substitute for the word “profiling”. The content of the article refers to the definition of profiling and offers speculative...
by | Feb 6, 2024 | SA Military History, SA Defence Force / Weermag
Klaus von Lieres ABSTRACT: Lawyer Klaus von Lieres was a senior Justice official and Civilian soldier when he was called up to do military service in Angola in late 1975. The author and Adv Von Lieres were given the task of mobilizing their regiment, the Orange River...
by | Feb 5, 2024 | SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Archives Posts
Security Branch Origins ABSTRACT: The Career of Detective Head Constable (Detective Warrant Officer) WJ Herbst a founder member of the Security Branch of the 1950’s and prior, he worked under Lt-Col AE Trigger and Lt-Col JAC Reay on the Witwatersrand. KEYWORDS:...
by | Feb 4, 2024 | SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie, Archives Posts
South African Railway Police Foundations ABSTRACTBuilding blocks of the SA Railways Police. Some of the antecedent Railways Police Forces in Colonial & Republican South Africa with historic pictures. KEYWORDSCape Government Railways, CGR, Central South African...
by | Feb 3, 2024 | SA Military History, Historical photos
Tempe Army Base Tempe Army Base near Bloemfontein has been in use by the military since the Anglo Boer War (ABW).Here is a collection of historical images spanning the ABW period, including pictures from the World War 2 era. Click here to load Tempe Army Base...
by | Jan 28, 2024 | Brokkies
Brokkies * Januarie 2024 Die Instrukteur wat gesteel het. Ukraine deception tactics Laser beam offender. Nuwe Strafproseswet Die Instrukteur wat gesteel het ABSTRACT: A former detective in the SA Police describes how he investigated a case of a dog that was stolen...
by David Blyth | Jan 28, 2024 | SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, Archives Posts
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD: PART SEVENTY-ONE ABSTRACT: Thirty South African casualties from the Second World War are buried in the Cassino War Cemetery. Foiano Della Chiana War Cemetery contains 256 Commonwealth burials of the...
by | Jan 27, 2024 | Historical photos, Archives Posts
ABSTRACT: Photo Album #1 of 2024, composed of photos contributed by readers. KEYWORDS: Johannesburg Law Courts 1899, ZARPS, Field Marshall JC Smuts, Fox Street, siege, SAS Drakensberg, Operation Pullen, Operation Narsau, Paul Kruger, AUTHOR: Editor & contributors...
by | Jan 26, 2024 | Uloliwe
Civilisation Lost ABSTRACT: Images of the Joubertina train station in the Eastern Cape, show the destruction of a railway station and steamtrain. The station building is occupied by squatters and is in a poor state of repair. The train station was once a hub of...
by WPS | Jan 19, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: Personal experiences, anecdotes, insights and comments from the pen of Brig (Ret) Fanie Bouwer, who served in the uniformed component of the erstwhile South African Police during the turbulent years of internal political strife prior to and during the...
by David Blyth | Jan 18, 2024 | Defence, Military History, SA Military History
ABSTRACT: Friendly encounters between SA Air Force Shackleton marine patrol aircraft from 35 Squadron with F-14 Tomcats from carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower KEYWORDS: SAAF, 35 Squadron, Shackleton, F-14 Tomcat, USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier, Iran hostage...
by WPS | Jan 18, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
ABSTRACT: Second extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This episode highlights the very limited scale of the conflict when compared to other such conflicts that raged in...
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 | Jan 7, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad, Tak Nasionale Vertolking (TNV)
ABSTRACT: As part of a new series in Nongqai, the South African Forces History Magazine, entitled “The Men Speak”, its editor-in-chief, retired Police Brigadier Hennie Heymans, shares his personal insights into the period 1964 to 1993 within the South African Police...
by WPS | Jan 7, 2024 | RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, Defence, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), South African Intelligence History, Staatsveiligheidsraad
ABSTRACT: Introducing Nongqai magazine’s new series of eyewitness recollections and insights titled: “The Men Speak” about the security and intelligence sphere during the last decades of white rule in South Africa. KEYWORDS: South Africa; Apartheid; national security;...
by WPS | Jan 7, 2024 | South African Police Brigade, SAP History / Geskiedenis
ABSTRACT: The history of the legendary former SA Police Holiday Resort at Port Edward on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast, surviving and thriving as the Port Edward Holiday Resort NPC (PEHR) still with its police connection and special rates. KEYWORDS: Assupol, Elderly...
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...
by | Jan 4, 2024 | Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis
Feeding Crime? Abstract South Africa provides food parcels to those in need with social grants to alleviate hunger and poverty. However, the quality and quantity of the food provided to those in police custody is superior to those receiving social grants. The...
by | Jan 2, 2024 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
The South African Police Badge Following the post of a former SAP member, Mr. Lance Pieter de Klerk of the vintage SA Police badge above and with assistance of his research, we found the accompanying articles by Lt Col LJ Haasbroek in Servamus from January and...
by | Jan 1, 2024 | Life Story, Archives Posts, SA Military History, South African Police Brigade
A comprehensive autobiography on the life of Major General CP Pretorius from his own pen (as EDITED AND annotated by his son, Professor L Pretorius). Click here for the full...
by | Dec 29, 2023 | SAP Commissioners
ABSTRACT: General George Fivaz accomplished the transitioning of the apartheid-era South African Police force and those of the former Bantu homelands, amalgamating them into the new South African Police Service, when tasked by President Nelson Mandela with this...
by | Dec 16, 2023 | RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, Brokkies, South African Intelligence History
National Intelligence 25 Years Commemoration Click on image for full document – Kliek op beeld om volledige dokument te lees. National Intelligence, Nasionale Intelligensie, FW de Klerk, MJM Louw, LD Barnard, HJ van den Berg, 25...
by David Blyth | Dec 15, 2023 | SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SADF Special Forces
by WPS | Dec 6, 2023 | Fire Brigade / Brandweer, Brokkies
ABSTRACT: The community of Sinoville, a neighbourhood to the East of Pretoria, established their own volunteer fire brigade. This blog post explains what they have done, with links to their website and a video, so that other communities may consider following suit....
by | Dec 5, 2023 | Capital punishment
Warrant : Death Penalty On June 6 1995, capital punishment was abolished by the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before this and at the time when a death penalty was expected, the registrar of the court summoned the sheriff to court. Upon handing down the...
by WPS | Dec 2, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, Archives Posts
ABSTRACT: Nongqai magazine Special Edition dedicated to the life and career of the late South African Police Lieutenant general FLC (Frikkie) Engels, former inspector-general of the Force. KEYWORDS: SA Police; Lt. Gen. Frikkie Engels NONGQAI SPESIALE UITGAWE SAP...
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 WPS | Nov 19, 2023 | RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV, Brokkies, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: The Nongqai team believes that our dream may soon be realised of having a properly managed permanent repository, at a suitably prestigious heritage venue, of MEMORABILIA associated with the history of Intelligence Services in South Africa. However, in the...
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 | Nov 5, 2023 | Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad
ABSTRACT: Series of interviews with Mr AP Stemmet former Justice Official and representative on the Secretariat of the State Security Council during the 1980’s (Part 1). KEYWORDS: State Security Council; AP Stemmet Sarie van Niekerk AP STEMMET: Die man van...
by WPS | Oct 27, 2023 | SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie
ABSTRACT: BAZLEY RAILWAY HALT NEAR DURBAN ON THE SOUTH COAST LINE, SOUTH AFRICA, WAS THE SCENE OF A DASTARDLY MUDER CAMOUFLAGED AS A RAIL ACCIDENT, WITH THE BODY OF THE VICTIM HAVING BEEN PLACED ON THE LINE, TO BE MUTILATED BY THE NEXT TRAIN. THIS DID NOT FOOL...
by | Oct 24, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, Brokkies
ABSTRACT: The 1961 crop of newly minted SA Police lieutenants included a substantial number who would go on to occupy senior positions in the Force. KEYWORDS: SA Police lieutenants 1961 Die 1961 SAP-offisierskursus het ‘n aansienlike getal luitenante opgelewer...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Abstract: The turbulent 1960’s in Durban and Pondoland as viewed through the eyes of a policeman’s son. KEYWORDS: Brooks Nek, Cato Manor, Hoërskool Dirkie Uys; SAP Mobile Unit Transkei; SAP Mt Ayliff; SAP Saracens; SAP Somtsue Rd BRIG HENNIE HEYMANS Op 23 Januarie...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
1962 – 1971: EARLY PERSONAL HISTORY Brig Christo Davidson, SAP/SAPS Abstract The early life and times of Brig Christo Davidson from Springs to Pretoria. Key words 1963 – Troop 35 SAP College, Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital, Constable Kingsley Holgate, D/W/O...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, Archives Posts
ABSTRACT: Example of an official S.A. Police commissioning deed promoting a previously non-commisioned member to officer rank as lieutenant. Also, Certificate of Service at retirement and photo of Brig Grobler. KEYWORDS: South African Police history, commission as...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Brig HB Heymans Abstract HBH describes one of the delightful and true old characters and a strict disciplinarian, Col TJ Bryne. He was OC of the authoritarian SAP Depot where new Recruits were transferred into fully fledged policemen. The author met him in Durban...
by WPS | Oct 23, 2023 | Detective Mysteries, Uncategorized
ABSTRACT: How did a rural French priest in tiny Rennes-le-Chateau amass the equivalent of €25 million, 150 years ago, to lavishly decorate his tiny church and hugely expand the church domain, such as by building a new rectory complete with medieval walls and towers?...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis
Written by Anemari Jansen and George Archer Roy Daryl Allen was born in the Moedersbond hospital in Pretoria on 15 February 1948. His grandfather was an Australian who had come out to South Africa during the Boer War, to fight for the British. The Allen family moved...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, SA Military History
Marga Ley Abstract Journalist Marga Ley reports the death of Roy Allen. There are no facts available that he was involved in the death of Olaf Palme or the Smit couple. Key words: Roy Allen, Olof Palme, Robert Smit-murders My vriend Roy Allen is die week dood aan...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis, SA Defence Force / Weermag
Cmdt Roy Allen Manuel Resende Ferreira Fellow members, I regret to announce that Cmdt (Lt Col) Roy Allen answered the Sunset Call yesterday the 18 of October 2023 in Pretoria. Roy Allen was one of the original SAP Special Task Force Operators, Selection 1. Roy was a...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | SA Railways Police / Spoorwegpolisie, Brokkies
ABSTRACT: Anecdote about a practical joke played on a colleague. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Martins P Botha is a former member of the SA Railways Police who during the 1980’s served in the Detective Section at Port Shepstone. We as Railways Police also had some fun, some...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
A TOUR OF DUTY SUPPORT UNIT, MILITARY WING OF THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE, RHODESIA. Gerhard van Tonder By kind permission of the late Barry Woan MLM, former Lance Chief Inspector, Support Unit, British South Africa Police, this article features some of Lance...
by | Oct 17, 2023 | Brokkies
SPIKKELTJIE – ‘n Gedig Lt-kol MJJ van RENSBURG, SALM Spikkeltjie. Diamantjie reine pêrel, kosbare saad uit die Hemel. Vandag is jy ‘n goue korreltjie More so groot soos ‘n mossie. Jy deel die Hemel met jou Moeder en word jy veilig gekoester. Jy groei in...
