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 | 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 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 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 | 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...
