FOLLOW LIVE ONLINE! On 26 March 2024, a function will be held to celebrate the cooperation between Nongqai, the SA Forces History Magazine, and the Library of Akademia University aimed at preserving Nongqai’s valuable archive for future generations.
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ABSTRACT: Nongqai series The Men Speak Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2 – my years in Intelligence....
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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 experience of living abroad, and currently the co-editor and business manager of Nongqai magazine, shares his experiences and insights into South Africa’s transition. He gives his personal view on why and how the political war was lost, despite the “armed struggle” battles having been won, explaining that it had always been a political rather than a military conflict, with the “armed struggle” having been just one part of the propaganda war, which latter the former South African government decisively lost due to poor strategic and policy choices.
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NONGQAI magazine special series – the men speak: From Apartheid to Democracy – Personal insights and experiences recounted by 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 the country’s transition to a non-racial democracy. He particularly addresses te question of coercive versus innovative police action.
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Nongqai magazine’s series of extracts from eBook on the armed struggle between the South African Police Security Branch and the alliance between the SA Communist Party and the ANC / MK
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