by Hennie Heymans | Jan 14, 2026 | Brokkies, Foreign intelligence services, Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung – HVA, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Markus Wolf Abstract Markus Wolf, long known as “the man without a face,” served as the elusive and highly effective head of East Germany’s foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung – HVA) during the Cold War. Operating within the vast and...
by Hennie Heymans | Jan 12, 2026 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, 1939 - 1945: The Wartime SA Police, Abwehr, Contemporary Police History / Eietydse Polisiegeskiedenis, Foreign intelligence services, Functions of the SA Police, Military History, SA Military History, SAP Afdeling: WP, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Spotted Dog and the German Espionage Networks in Cape Town (1938–1945) Abstract The iconic Spotted Dog roadhouse in Retreat/Tokai, Cape Town, has for decades been at the centre of a persistent local wartime rumour: that the building was used by German spies during the...
by Hennie Heymans | Dec 11, 2025 | Life Story, SAP Chatsworth, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Members of Indian decent / Indiër-lede, SAP Personalities, SAP Wentworth Training College, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Sub-culture / sub-kultuur, Tribute to SAP Members
An Autobiography: Lieutenant-Colonel Subramonia Pillai: Dedicated to my beloved wife, Vimla, my star in life Abstract “The life journey of the late Colonel S Pillai, B Proc, (South African Police) is a richly woven biography that reads like a novel, portraying the...
by Hennie Heymans | Nov 23, 2025 | Roman Coins & Medal dug up in Nelspruit, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Discoveries of Roman artefacts near Nelspruit (Mpumalanga) Abstract Ancient Mediterranean Artefacts and Voyages in Southern Africa: Roman Coins and Phoenician Circumnavigation Discoveries of Roman artefacts near Nelspruit (Mpumalanga) — including sestertii of Lucius...
by Hennie Heymans | Oct 29, 2025 | Police Humour, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Humour in Mufti: Colonel Jasser Arafat (PLO) Abstract: In a moment of boredom-induced mischief, the author attends a government meeting in civilian clothes and whimsically identifies himself as “Colonel Yasser Arafat from the PLO”—receiving access without...
