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 | 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 | 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 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...