by WPS | Mar 31, 2024 | Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, South African Intelligence History
ABSTRACT: Nongqai eMagazine and Akademia are cooperating in the preservation and indexing of Nongqai’s archive of back issues dating from 2010. At a function on the Akademia campus on 26 March 2024, entrusting the Nongqai collection to Akademia was celebrated. This...
by WPS | Mar 22, 2024 | South African Intelligence History, BfSS NIS, SAP Security Branch / Veiligheidstak, Sekretariaat van die Staatsveiligheidsraad (SSVR - SSSC), Staatsveiligheidsraad
ABSTRACT: Third extract from NONGQAI’s eBook on the South African Police Security Branch and the armed struggle launched by the SACP/ANC-alliance. This episode explains the complex history of South Africa’s internal conflict. Was “Apartheid” South Africa uniquely...
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 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 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...
