DIE VROUE-UITGAWE: WIE ons is en WAT ons WIL WEES
Nongqai Vroue is ‘n tydskrif vir die vroue van die Suid-Afrikaanse Magte. Met die 50e herdenking van vroue as volwaardige polisiebeamptes in 2022 het Sarie van Niekerk, ‘n afgetrede joernalis wat self destyds (in Maart 1972) deel was van die heel eerste inname van vroue-konstabels, begin om ‘n gereelde vroue-rubriek vir Nongqai te skryf. Ook het sy en ons hoofredakteur, Brig Hennie Heymans, saamgewerk aan ‘n gedenk-boek oor die eerste 50 jaar (sien hieronder). Al te gou het hierdie rubrieke gegroei tot ‘n reeks Spesiale Uitgawes van Nongqai gefokus op vroue in die Magte, wat toe terstond tot volle wasdom gekom het as die volwaardige vroue-uitgawe, uitgegee in eie reg.
Al is die Vroue-uitgawe uit die polisie-ervaringsveld gebore, is dit wyd gemik – op die geskiedenis (ook eietyds) van vroue in ELKEEN van die vertakkinge van die Magte. Net so omvattend dus as die Nongqai as sulks. Dit wil daardie trotse geskiedenis bewaar en uitdra na die publiek, en ook ‘n skakel help wees tussen almal wat gedien het, en ook diegene wat tans nog dien.
THE LADIES EDITION: WHO we are and WHAT we WISH TO BE
Nongqai Ladies is a magazine for the women of the South African Forces. With the 50th anniversary of women as full-fledged police officers in 2022, Sarie van Niekerk, a retired journalist who was herself at the time (in March 1972) part of the very first intake of women constables, started writing a regular women’s column for Nongqai. Also, she and our editor-in-chief, Brig Hennie Heymans, collaborated on a commemorative book about the first 50 years (see below). All too soon, these columns grew into a series of Special Issues of Nongqai focused on women in the Forces, which shortly thereafter came to fruition as the full-fledged women’s issue, published in its own right.
Although the Ladies Edition was born from within the police experience, it is aimed broadly – at the history (also contemporary) of women in ALL branches of the Forces. Thus, similar to the broad scope of Nongqai as such. It wants to preserve the Forces’ proud history and bring it to the public, while also helping to be a link among all those who once served, but also those who are currently serving.
TO DOWNLOAD A PARTICULAR EDITION (VOLUME NUMBER) AS A .pdf, SIMPLY CLICK ON ITS COVER.
OM ‘N BEPAALDE UITGAWE (VOLUME NOMMER) AF TE LAAI AS ‘N .pdf, KLIEK NET OP DIE BUITEBLAD.
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