by | Oct 17, 2023 | Uncategorized, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC)
AP Stemmet Van links na regs: AP Stemmet, genl majoors Kiewiet Geldenhuys (SALM) en JFJ van Rensburg (SA Leër) – Na aftrede by die SAW het genl Van Rensburg by die SA Polisie (V-tak) aangesluit waar hy die rang van tydelike brigadier beklee het.) Mnr AP Stemmet met...
by | Oct 17, 2023 | Brokkies, Uncategorized
Die Swart Serp – ‘n Tikkie Humor HBH Hier gedurende 1971 is ek verbonde aan die veiligheidstak, Durban. In daardie dae het ons Saterdae gewerk – ek dink een Saterdag per maand. Ons het nie juis gewerk, nie net die kantoor oopgesluit, aandag aan ernstige goedjies gegee...
by | Oct 17, 2023 | Brokkies
DIE SWART SERP | THE BLACK SASH Die dames te...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis
EIETYDSE POLISIEGESKIEDENIS | CONTEMPORARY POLICE HISTORY Lt Jan de Klerk (Police Scientist) Abstract and Keywords In 1994 the advent of democracy raised expectations for a new, community policing model. It was a model of policing that everyone can be proud of. The...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | POW's / Krygsgevangenes
Lt-kol Philip Malherbe (SAP-afgtr.) Abstract Abstrak The history of prisoners of war is as old as the history of war. Over the centuries, the treatment of POW’s has...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SA Defence Force / Weermag
Roelf du Plooy, SA Special Forces, ex-SAP Special Task Force via Jonathan Pittaway Abstract Anecdotal history of the SAP Special Task Force and 4 Recce Keywords: Maleoskop, SAP Special Task Force, Langebaan, 4 Recce, Saviac free fall parachute Johan was a co-member...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SA Defence Force / Weermag
KRYGSGESKIEDENIS | SA MILITARY HISTORY Via Henning van Aswegen On 14 September 2023, Dr. Evert Kleynhans from the Department of Military History at the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. This makes...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, Archives Posts
WE WILL REMEMBER SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD: PART SIXTY – NINE Captain (SAN) Charles Ross (SA Navy Retired) Abstract South Africans took part in almost every war theatre during the First and Second World Wars. According to...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | RI/BfSS/NI/NIS/BSV
ABSTRACT: a series of articles on the development of an own Science of Intelligence in South Africa; in this edition – the history of the communist threat. KEYWORDS: Communism in South Africa; Communist Party of South Africa; South African Communist Party;...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Via Hendrik van den Bergh vanaf Theuns Dreyer Inleiding Die Suid-Afrikaanse regering het nog altyd, so ver ek weet, lede van die Mag en Nasionale Intelligensie gehad om by die Raad op Atoomkrag (RAK) en die Uraanverrykingskorporasie (Ukor). Afgetrede senior offisiere...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | TIN Teeninsurgensie / COIN
Louis Lubbe ’N KORT GESKIEDENIS VAN SUIDWES-AFRIKA “Oorlog is nooit ’n eensydige saak nie.” – Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) Tussen die Oranjerivier in die suide en die Kunenerivier in die noorde lê daar ’n stuk wêreld, so buitengewoon en so anders, dat min...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
First Radio use for apprehension ABSTRACT:During the 1930’s an armed robbery took place in Bloemfontein and the robbers used a getaway car with a Johannesburg registration. The police in Bloemfontein had a member who was an amateur radio operator. He contacted an...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Kol Wynand Schoeman Abstract SWA and the Caprivi Zipfel was at one stage policed by the SA Police. Keywords: Cultural factors, witchcraft, post mortems, tribal courts, rare juvenile crime Tydens my tydperk in die Oos-Caprivi (nou die Zambezi provinsie, Namibië), het...
by | Oct 16, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
Brig HB Heymans en kol Dana Kruger Abstract The life and times of the late Lt-Col JH “Manie” Odendaal, a Police Dog Handler from 1963 and later Commanding Officer of the Durban SA Police Flying Squad and Radio Station. He also trained dogs to combat drugs. He was...
by | Oct 16, 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 strict SAP Depot where new Recruits were transferred into fully fledged policemen. He met him in Durban during the 1960’s...
by | Oct 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Col Logan Govender Col Logan Govender Colonel Logan Govender is a retired senior police officer who holds a BA in Police Science and who in 1983 obtained the top score in the national police exams of that year. He is the son of a stalwart former police sergeant. Logan...
by WPS | Oct 6, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
TROU TOT DIE DOOD TOE: DIE OORGANG-ONDERHANDELINGE Genl JV van der Merwe ABSTRACT “Trou tot die Dood toe” (Loyal unto death) is an autobiography by General Johan Velde van der Merwe – the last commissioner of the former South African Police. It gives his point of view...
by | Oct 6, 2023 | SAP History / Geskiedenis
MY EERSTE GRENSBESOEK, 1988 AO Gert Visagè ABSTRACT A police colleague’s son visited the border as a 14-year-old boy. He shares his memories Search Terms: SA Police; Border War; Oshakati So loop my geheue terug na Oshakati, 1988. As ‘n 14-jarige laaitjie wat...
by WPS | Oct 3, 2023 | Archives Posts, SA Defence Force / Weermag
Click Here for the downloadable, full report of this fascinating project. Abstract: The true story of the top-secret cooperation between the USSR and sanctioned South Africa, from 1989, in the re-design of SOVIET MIG-29 jet engines for the upgrade of SAAF Mirage...
