Category: SA Military History
Dr LD (NIëL) BARNARD – AN APPRECIATION
Appreciation of the contribution made by the late Dr Niël Barnard, former head of South Africa’s then National Intelligence Service, to the peaceful transition to a negotiated non-racial new constitution.
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BRANDEWYN OP PARADE
Sebastiaan Jakobus Paulus van der Merwe vertel ‘n Brandewyn op Parade-storie aan Chris Botha.
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Waarom die Verwoerd-regering die Afrikaner Broederbond ondersoek, en onskuldig bevind het
Waarom die Verwoerd-regering die Afrikaner Broederbond ondersoek, en onskuldig bevind het.
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South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned
ABSTRACT: South African Police a case of so few owed so much yet scorned; an analysis of how tiny...
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BRING SKILLIE HOME
MIA South African parabat 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.
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“QUIET COUP D’ETAT” AGAINST PM JOHN VORSTER
“QUIET COUP D’ETAT” AGAINST PM JOHN VORSTER – Nongqai BLOG
Revealing article by John Fullerton in NOW! magazine, Oct 1979, on the “quiet coup d’etat” against PM John Vorster, which he attributes to generals of the SADF
NONGQAI SPECIAL EDITION DIETER GERHARDT PREVIEW
Nongqai Special Edition Dieter Gerhardt Preview is a teaser for the upcoming publication in April, of an in-depth review of Gerhardt, a high-ranking SA Navy officer’s spying for the Soviet military intelligence, the GRU. The authors benefited from inputs by Gerhardt himself. Hitherto unpublished documentation is presented.
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Elands River Siege
Elands River Siege : 4–16 August 1900 ABSTRACT : The Boer investment in August 1900 of the British...
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NONGQAI AND AKADEMIA COOPERATE TO PRESERVE OUR ARCHIVE
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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SOUTH AFRICAN WAR GRAVES ACROSS THE WORLD
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR GRAVES ACROSS THE WORLD Abstract: South Africans took part in almost every war...
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NONGQAI SERIES THE MEN SPEAK Dr Willem Steenkamp
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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