Category: BfSS NIS
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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“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
S.A. POLICE SECURITY BRANCH SERIES #3
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 racist, in the world colonial context? What was the role of white South Africa’s security and intelligence community in the transition to a non-racial democracy.
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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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NONGQAI SERIES THE MEN SPEAK Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2
ABSTRACT: Nongqai series The Men Speak Dr Willem Steenkamp Part 2 – my years in Intelligence....
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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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