Category: SA Defence Force / Weermag

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 Hitherto unpublished documentation is presented.

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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

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 SERIES : The men speak : Brig Hennie Heymans

ntroducing the nature and goals of Nongqai magazine’s new series: “the men speak”. This will consist of eyewitness recollections and insights of those who served in the security and intelligence spheres during the last decades of white rule in South Africa, recounted to enhance understanding of the realities and motives that contributed to the transition from Apartheid to a non-racial democracy.

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COURT JESTER

Roelf du Plooy, SA Special Forces, ex-SAP Special Task Force via Jonathan Pittaway Abstract Anecdotal history of the SAP Special Task Force and 4 Recce Keywords: Maleoskop, SAP Special Task Force, Langebaan, 4 Recce, Saviac free...

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